Making Their Mark

BlueMark Publishes New Impact Benchmarks Powered by Growing Dataset on Best Practices in Impact Management

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023
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NEW YORK, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BlueMark, a leading provider of independent impact verification and intelligence for the impact and sustainable investing market, today published its fourth annual "Making the Mark'' report with data and insights on best practices in impact management. This year's report, available at https://bluemarktideline.com/making-the-mark-2023, is based on 84 practice verifications for investors managing a combined $206 billion in impact AUM, making it BlueMark's largest research sample to date. Leveraging its expanded dataset, BlueMark has for the first time published custom benchmarks by asset class and thematic focus.

Key Points: 
  • Leveraging its expanded dataset, BlueMark has for the first time published custom benchmarks by asset class and thematic focus.
  • BlueMark also announced the addition of four more investors – AgDevCo, BlueEarth Capital, Calvert Impact Capital, and Nuveen Fixed Income Impact – to the BlueMark Practice Leaderboard , joining Bain Capital Double Impact, British International Investment, Finance in Motion, LeapFrog Investments, Nuveen Private Equity Impact, and Trill Impact.
  • The report also includes case studies on innovations in impact management, featuring Adams Street Partners, Franklin Templeton, FullCycle Climate Partners, Schroders Asset Management, and Summa Equity.
  • "The expanded dataset in this year's 'Making the Mark' report reveals an increasingly diverse range of impact investors across asset classes and strategies, reflecting growing adoption of impact management standards across investor types," said Christina Leijonhufvud, CEO of BlueMark.

BlueMark Raises $10 Million in Series A to Accelerate Adoption of Its Market-Leading Impact Verification Services, Benchmarks, and Analytics

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023
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The increase in funding will be used to accelerate BlueMark's leadership position as a premier provider of impact verification, benchmarks, and analytics to institutional investors of all types.

Key Points: 
  • The increase in funding will be used to accelerate BlueMark's leadership position as a premier provider of impact verification, benchmarks, and analytics to institutional investors of all types.
  • Founded in January 2020, BlueMark has completed 125 verifications to date for investors with a combined $206 billion in impact AUM.
  • By providing insightful and comparable interpretations of investor impact performance, BlueMark helps optimize capital allocations towards impact.
  • BlueMark regularly shares these insights with the impact investing field via a research series on impact management practices ("Making the Mark") and a series on impact reporting ("Raising the Bar").