Dimensional and Route17 Announce Blended Finance Symposium
The event on September 20, 2023 aims to explore new ways for asset owners, asset managers and sustainable finance specialists to collaborate with public sector investors.
Dimensional Fund Advisors and Route17 will co-host an all-day event, bringing together stakeholders in this important emerging field of sustainability financing.
Blended finance is an approach to structuring investment from varied private and public organisations that seeks to satisfy each investors’ requirements. Many projects and activities needed to support sustainable development, for example those working towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are not financially attractive to private investors. Blended finance provides a framework for various finance sources and resources to be pooled, with targeted public investment attracting private investors into important development projects at greater scale.
“The investment required to achieve the world’s sustainable development goals is much, much more than governments, NGOs and charities can muster,” said Harald Walkate, Co-Founder of Route17. “So we need institutional investors like pension funds and insurance companies to commit resources. However, most development projects and activities are small scale, not profitable (enough), and in emerging markets. For good reasons, institutional investors tend not to invest in small-scale, unprofitable, emerging markets projects”.
Robert van Zwieten, Co-Founder of Route17, added that “blended finance can change the risk/return profiles of development projects, enabling institutional investors to allocate capital to them.”
“Dimensional believes blended finance has the potential to reshape development finance, unlocking greater levels of investment and accelerating progress towards important global sustainability goals”, said Jim Whittington, Head of Responsible Investment at Dimensional Fund Advisors.
Jim added “Co-hosting this blended finance event with Route17 brings together some of the leaders in sustainable finance and will enable asset owners, asset managers and public sector stakeholders to understand how we can build and expand the blended finance marketplace so that this emerging field of sustainable finance can make a difference to the world.”
About Dimensional Fund Advisors
Dimensional is a leading global investment firm that has been translating academic research into practical investment solutions since 1981. Guided by a strong belief in markets, we help investors pursue higher expected returns through a systematic investment process that integrates research insights with advanced portfolio design, management, and trading while balancing tradeoffs that can impact returns. Dimensional is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has 13 global offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. As of 31 March, 2023, Dimensional manages $614 billion for investors worldwide. For more information, please visit dimensional.com.
About Route17
Route17 offers independent strategic advice to private and public companies and investors. Its focus is on developing impact investment and SDG-aligned investment strategies, identifying actionable and investable options to implement those strategies, and verifying investment outcomes.
Its ambition is to support clients in becoming recognized players in a vibrant global impact investing and blended finance marketplace by building unconventional partnerships.
The event is on September 20 at Dimensional's office at 20 Triton Street, London, NW1 3BF. For more information please contact Harald Walkate at Route17 below.
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