Fund managers overestimate the social and environmental impact they bring to investments by an average of 10%, according to a new report from Snowball.
The survey asked managers to self-assess their impact across five categories - missions and behaviours, impact process, active ownership, catalytic and impact risk management - and then moderated the scores according to Snowball's best practice framework, and found a range of scores from 7.1 to 13.3 out of 15. It found that across all categories but impact risk management, middle-aged managers (with five to 20 years' experience) outperformed their older and younger counterparts, with the former lacking "the same commitment to impact" while the latter struggled with a "limited track recor...
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