12-11-2025
14:30 - 17:00
1 Cornhill
London
EC3V 3ND

Private Markets Profile’s Impact Investment Summit

All investments have an impact- but not all investments are impact investments.

Join Private Markets Profile for our Impact and Social Investment summit.

Debate and analyse how private capital can drive both financial returns and meaningful social outcomes.
Explore innovative strategies, real-world case studies, and pressing challenges across the spectrum of impact investing.
Learn from leading endowments and pension investors on how they’re embedding impact into investment decision-making, portfolio construction, and performance assessment.

Key topics included:

Social investment as a part of fiduciary duty
Place based impact investments
Impact measurement and reporting
Health as an investment

Who attended? This event was designed for a diverse range of institutional investors, including:

Charities, Endowments, and Foundations
LGPS investors
DC pension funds and master trusts
DB pension schemes
Insurance companies
Family offices

View the report here

A different kind of industry conversation

Our summits are designed as expanded roundtable discussions — immersive, interactive events where every voice matters.

Throughout the day, we intersperse short, focused presentations with open-floor dialogue. Each talk is intended to spark discussion rather than deliver a one-way lecture. Following each presentation, participants are invited to ask questions, challenge assumptions, and share their own perspectives. This creates a collaborative space for genuine knowledge exchange.

Participation

Our format works best when everyone is engaged.
We encourage — and expect — participants to contribute to the conversation. While we make exceptions for those wishing to observe quietly, the ethos of a summit is active involvement.

Reporting & Publication

The purpose of each summit is to surface valuable perspectives, insights, and challenges — which we then capture in a post-event report.

On the record: All conversations are on the record unless explicitly stated otherwise.
Accuracy first: We record discussions to ensure accuracy and avoid misquoting.

This approach ensures we preserve the richness of the conversation while maintaining transparency and trust.

Past reports

Charities, Endowments and Foundations Summit (2025)

Insurance Investment Summit (2025)

Defined Contributions Summit (2025)

Longview summit reports provide clear, practical insights and sponsored content. Each report captures the expert discussion and provides key takeaways to help asset owners and managers navigate a variety of investment opportunities/risks.

Renewable Infrastructure Summit (2025)

Investing in UK Summit (2025)

Transition Equities Summit (2025)

2:30

Arrivals & refreshments

3:00

Impact across the balance sheet

No longer seen as concessionary, impact is increasingly being integrated into mainstream portfolios not just in niche strategies, but across asset classes and investment mandates. Explore how investors can align financial and social outcomes at scale, without compromising fiduciary responsibility.

How are different investors, from pensions to foundations approaching and embedding impact into their portfolio and what opportunities there are for collaboration.

Should capital be allocated thematically toward sectors like education, healthcare, or housing, or should impact be pursued holistically across a diversified portfolio? What does it mean to make social investment part of fiduciary duty, and how are leading institutions reframing risk, across both “returns” and “impact first” strategies?

3:30

Community focused capital: housing and place-based impact investing

As interest in place-based investing grows, institutional investors are re-evaluating how to direct capital toward meaningful local outcomes. Whether investing close to home or in underserved regions nationally, investors aim to connect financial performance with community impact. Uncover and explore how institutional investors can meaningfully engage in place-based strategies while balancing scale, risk, and return expectations?

What models are emerging to finance social and affordable housing sustainably? What is the opportunity set for public-private partnerships in delivering community infrastructure and how can fiduciaries build the case for geographically targeted investments with longer time horizons but deeper social outcomes?

4:00

Measuring impact-qualitative vs quantitative approaches

Impact investing has long been rooted in narrative, where success is often framed through compelling stories of social progress. But in a more outcomes-driven world, how can investors be confident they’re backing not just good intentions, but real, measurable change, especially in VC and SME markets.

Alternatively, emerging asset classes—from real assets to social outcomes contracts—are offering investors a more quantifiable approach to impact, blending financial performance with standardized, data-driven reporting.

What does meaningful measurement look like across diverse asset classes? Can qualitative and quantitative frameworks be integrated effectively? And how can investors ensure they’re aligning capital with both credible stories and measurable results?

4:30

Health as an investment opportunity

As the concept of health broadens to include social determinants like housing, nutrition, and mental wellbeing, the opportunity set for institutional investors is expanding. Health is emerging as a cross-cutting investment theme with the potential to deliver both strong financial returns and meaningful social outcomes—particularly in underserved communities.

Explore how health investing is evolving across sectors and asset classes, what models are generating measurable outcomes, and how investors are assessing health-related risk.

5:00