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November 2022 / INVESTMENT INSIGHTS

Impact Investing in Credit: Debunking Four Common Misconceptions

We attempt to debunk four popular myths about impact investing

Increasingly, companies are being measured not only by their earnings and cash flow, but according to the effect their activities have on the environment and society. As a result, credit investors no longer judge those companies solely on their risk and return characteristics, but increasingly by their external impact as well. 

So-called impact investing is not a new asset class: it is a natural extension of environmental-, social-and governance- focused (‘ESG’) investment approaches in credit. The idea is to identify debt issuers on the right side of change— those that are seeking to deliver a beneficial environmental and social impact, as well as positive financial returns.

Fixed Income Impact portfolios can be flexibly managed to client objectives.

- Matt Lawton, Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income

Impact investing has grown considerably in the past few years. But a lack of knowledge and several commonly shared misconceptions may discourage investors from considering this way of investing in credit.

In this article, we attempt to debunk four popular myths about impact investing, as well as showing how T. Rowe Price’s Global Impact Credit Strategy addresses them.

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