Impact Investing

Combining impact objectives with investment returns.

Positive change occurs where capital is channelled specifically into companies whose products and services can help tackle social or environmental challenges. For us, impact investing is a methodology to systematically analyse, measure and transparently present the expected positive impacts of investments. The insights we gain through that process are incorporated into our investment decisions and portfolio strategy.
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Companies addressing global challenges may benefit from structural growth drivers and attractive long-term market opportunities.

Daniel Boege

Partner · Chief Investment Officer

ESG seeks to understand and reduce negative impacts.
Impact aims to create a positive contribution.

Through our impact strategy, we invest where products and services are expected to contribute positively to defined sustainability goals, based on our Impact Pathways methodology: to decarbonisation, more efficient use of resources, or the reduction of structural inequalities. We look for business models that can scale their impact, succeed in competitive markets and operate in sectors with long-term impact potential.

Our focus: global relevance.

Our impact strategy targets investments in companies whose products and services make a measurable contribution to climate change mitigation, biodiversity preservation and the reduction of global inequality. Contributions are assessed through Golding's Impact Pathways framework and SDG-related indicators. From this, we derive our key investment themes: renewable energy, resource efficiency, food and agricultural technologies, and financial inclusion.

What we look for in impact investments:

  1. Scalability

    because impact reaches its full potential when it can grow

  2. Competitiveness

    because sustainable solutions must prove themselves in the market over the long term

  3. Relevance

    because the world's greatest challenges offer the greatest potential for meaningful impact

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Impact is created through clarity and consistency.

Jeremy Golding
Founder · Managing Partner

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Investing in business models with sustainable impact.

At the heart of our impact strategy are business models whose products and services are expected to contribute measurable benefits according to defined impact indicators. Over 96% of the portfolio companies in the Golding Impact 2021 fund make a positive contribution to at least two SDGs, according to our assessment (as of 31 December 2025). Examples include:

  • Alternatives to certain chemicals, pesticides, or packaging materials
  • Technologies that drive the energy transition and deliver real value
  • Companies improving their footprint through technological upgrades
  • Companies reshaping their product portfolios towards sustainability, including through acquisitions
  • Regulatory frameworks and policy developments that accelerate sustainable solutions
  • Markets and customer segments where sustainability is becoming a defining factor
     

Impact and sustainability disclosure.

References to ESG, sustainability and responsible investment on this page describe Golding's investment processes, methodologies and assessment frameworks. They do not imply that all investments generate positive environmental or social outcomes. Further information is available in the relevant SFDR disclosures, sustainability reports and fund documentation.

Sustainability Related Disclosures