Get Your Product on the Impact Map
Are you looking to raise impact capital?
We are looking for funds, bonds, and other private offerings to join Impact Index+, an exclusive subset of the SVX Impact Index. Impact Index+ showcases a group of impact investment opportunities that meets our rigorous standards for impact, governance, and financial performance.
Impact Index+ is a mark of excellence and trust in impact investing. Receiving the Impact Index+ recognition is a testament to an issuer’s commitment in creating real impact. This year, the deadline to submit your product is September 16th, 2024.
What is Impact Index+?
Impact Index+ is a curated subset of qualified and vetted private impact investment offerings as recommended by an Advisory Group of industry professionals. This set of opportunities is announced semi-annually and showcased on the Index. These issuers must meet a set of additional, in-depth criteria related to management and governance, impact, finances, and equity.
What is the SVX Impact Index?
The SVX Impact Index is a database featuring 200+ private impact investment opportunities, from bonds to private equity funds with national reach from coast-to-coast-to-coast. Acting as an impact map of opportunities, it is a searchable database accessible to Canadian impact investors.
What is the Criteria for Impact Index+?
Issuers must meet a set of additional, in-depth criteria related to management and governance, impact, finances, and equity:
- Management and Governance
- Track Record: Demonstrated track record for active and established issuers or previous track record of team and partners for new and emerging issuers.
- Team: Aligned team experience, skills and performance.
2. Impact: Management and Standards
- Management: Impact management strategies, including impact measures.
- Standards: Adherence to market-standard for impact. This may include a third-party standard or agreement to code of conduct.
3. Finances: Sustainability, Structure and Exit Strategy
- Financial Sustainability: Strong financial model and potential for financial sustainability
- Financial Return: Potential for financial return from concessionary, below-market, at-market, to above-market rate.
- Exit Strategy: Clear strategies for exit that align with long-term impact and sustainability for issuer, investor(s) and community.
4. Equity: Racial and Gender Equity
- Demonstrated commitment to advancing racial and gender equity within management, governance, and business operations
Why should I post on the SVX Impact Index?
- Gain Exposure: Join a league of trailblazers at the forefront of impact investing. With 200 impactful products already in the database and an existing network of hundreds of impact investors, your product will achieve significant reach in the Canadian impact investing community.
- Put Yourself on the Impact Map: Your products will be on the largest repository of impact investment products in Canada. Get on the single access point for impact market information for asset owners, asset managers, researchers, and other key stakeholders in impact investing.
- Foster Growth and Development: Get connected with like-minded actors in impact investing in Canada. Our network can foster collaborations, partnerships, shared learning, and feedback to drive your growth and development.
And the best part? There is no cost for issuers to post on the Index.
The Vision Behind the SVX Impact Index
SVX was founded on the premise of a need to build a single access point for impact investment opportunities. In pursuit of this vision, we have developed the SVX Impact Index: a comprehensive, universal database of all private impact offerings currently available to Canadian investors, complemented by a smaller, qualified set of opportunities known as Impact Index+.
So why are we embarking on this journey?
We see a significant need and opportunity for a new impact map for Canada:
- Market Growth: The Canadian impact investing market is seeing rapid growth, with over $20 billion in Canadian assets seeking impact investments — a number seeing a steady annual increase.
- Investor Demand: Demand from impact investors far exceeds current supply and service offerings. From foundations to faith-based organizations, more and more investors are dedicating a portion or even all of their portfolios to impact investing. Initiatives like the Social Finance Fund are also driving demand.
- Issuer Supply: There is a large and growing pool of potential issuers, from funds to bonds and other innovative financing products.
- Product Availability: Impact investors (alongside managers and advisors) face significant challenges finding and accessing impact investing products.
- Incremental vs. Transformational Change: Although we are generating positive impact, the SVX Impact Index is having an incremental effect on the impact and mainstream system. The current issuer/investor/platform offering is not aligned with our long-term vision of all investments being impact investments.
Over the past few years, our extensive market research and work in the field identified the need for a new approach that bridges the gap between investors and issuers, addresses information gaps, and enhances transparency to create a more efficient impact ecosystem.
For investors, finding impact investments in Canada is like trying to shop at farm markets. It involves multiple trips to multiple destinations. Locations are not easy to find. When you arrive, only one type of product is available. Offerings are seasonal, and they come and go. And you often need to be in the know via personal referrals or recommendations. There is no Google Maps.
The SVX Impact Index aims to change that by becoming a one-stop-shop for investors, making it easier and more efficient to browse and discover investments that suit their financial and impact needs. Products are continually restocked and updated, and investors will have access to a range of supports including education, strategy, research, and other solutions to help them take that first or next step on their impact investing journey.
How to Submit Your Product
Submitting your product is easy. If you want to get on the Impact Map in Canada, follow these simple steps:
- Visit the SVX Impact Index and sign-up as an issuer to submit your offering to be considered for Impact Index+. Please follow these instructions. Issuers who wish to submit a regular offering may also follow these instructions.
If you have any questions or if you need additional information, please reach out directly to us at platformsupport@svx.ca.
Chart your Impact Map and submit your product to be part of the Impact Index+ 2024 cohort today!
