Our impact - Sentient Impact Group

A sentient being is

/ One that has an ability to evaluate the actions of others in relation to itself and third parties, to remember some of its own actions and their consequences, to assess risks and benefits, to have some feelings and to have some degree of awareness. /

(Broom 2006, 2014)

What impact means to us

Our impact investment strategies are designed to generate (net) positive impacts, steered by a sophisticated measurement process, in pursuit of competitive risk-adjusted returns.

Our Impact Investing Approach

Our Process

Impact potential

When screening the impact potential of an investment, we’re assessing: its urgency, whether it’s equitable and durable, as well as the unique contribution that Sentient can offer.

impact Measurement

While we hold an asset, we measure its impact across a set of standardised metrics to gauge progress and direct our focus.

Impact management

These insights are used to inform impact management, to effectively guide decision-making along the full investment cycle, to ensure we’re supporting our stakeholders.

Our impact is your impact

We’re driven by the ambitions of our investors, as much as their capital. We view ourselves as facilitators of positive impact, contributing impact as part of a value chain that includes our investors, partners and final beneficiaries.

Our ‘Theory of Change’

Our hypothesis for how change will happen:

/ By offering a curated selection of high-integrity impact opportunities to more investors, we lead the transformation of financial markets to integrate impact, and in doing so, shift economic incentives away from inefficient models of extraction and towards regeneration. /

problem

Our current economic system is not sustainable.

Process

We curate impact investment opportunities, with a commitment to authenticity and transparency.

Outputs

Support thriving purpose-led businesses, to deliver attractive returns, alongside positive impact.

Outcomes

Transformation of our economy towards regeneration.

Impact Strategies and Themes

We view investing through an impact lens, and we recognise the topography of the modern sustainable investment landscape has many layers.

Catalytic Impact investment

An impact-first approach that prioritises positive outcomes over financial returns; can include offering patient or catalytic capital to drive change.

Impact investment

Investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a competitive financial return.

Thematic investment

Investments that target a well-defined theme, usually covering a specific area of sustainable development

Positive / negative screening

Using negative or positive screens to either avoid industries or assets an investor doesn’t want to be involved with, or steering allocations to companies with more positive operations and offerings

ESG Integration

ESG integration investments consider environmental, social, and governance factors alongside financial considerations, aiming for sustainable and responsible returns.

Traditional investment

Traditional investments are conventional financial instruments, like stocks, bonds, real estate, and mutual funds, held for long-term wealth accumulation and income.

Our investment strategies

Our bespoke approach to curating investment strategies allows us to cover a range of impact themes. Our current suite of products target the following:

Impact Themes

Take Climate Action, Reduce GHG Emissions
Value Nature and Preserve Biodiversity
Support Equality and Social Wellbeing

Impact Measurement and Management

The Sentient Impact Measurement and Management System operates in alignment with globally recognised impact frameworks to systematically measure outputs, assess outcomes, and inform management processes to maximise the sustainable delivery of positive impact.

Throughout the process we depend on qualitative insights as much as quantitative; through story-telling, we aim to learn about how the welfare of our beneficiaries has been improved, and how access to capital or new business opportunities has had an impact.