Partners SERES. SpainNAB

Fundación SERES and SpainNAB come together to promote the adoption of investment practices with a social and sustainable impact and their measurement within Spanish companies, as a strategic tool and a lever for business innovation.

We seek a change in the economic model to incorporate and measure social and environmental impact as a new variable in the risk and return binomial of all investment and business decisions.

To address these issues, we organized an event that brought together a hundred companies and was attended by international social impact experts, such as Sir Ronald Cohen, impact investing advocate and president of the GSG.

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“The best way for companies to create wealth is to think in terms of profit-risk-impact. We must move forward and bring impact to the center of capitalism.””

Ronald Cohen, president of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, a global group that emerge in 2013 within the British presidency of the G8, and of which SpainNAB is the representative in Spain since June 2019.

“Doing what everyone else does when you think about the impact of an organization is not a strategy. It's an increase in your operational efficiency. The strategy is to understand materiality, but also to consider how you can differentiate yourself today”

George Serafeim, professor at Harvard Business School, leader of the Impact Weighted Accounts initiative that works on the creation and adoption by large companies of financial accounts that, in addition to financial performance, reflect with equal relevance the social and environmental impact, guiding the financial and strategic decision-making of companies.

“We need simple, objective language to talk about performance and impact. We must approach the marketplace using performance terms rather than subjective motivations or labels.”

Clara Barby, CEO of the Impact Management Project (IMP), a global platform involving more than 2,000 companies and investors that aims to generate a global consensus on how to measure, manage and communicate impact through a commonly accepted framework.

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"This is an important moment, not only because it crystallizes the alliance between SpainNAB and SERES, but also because this joint work contemplates the triangle profitability-risk-impact in a context of post-covid reconstruction in which we look to the future without leaving anyone behind", Francisco Román, President of SERES

"This alliance represents a very important milestone for the work we are doing from SpainNAB in terms of measuring and managing business impact. Having the involvement and commitment of Fundación SERES and its work with large companies will undoubtedly be an important step forward in promoting impact investment and its measurement in our country", Juan Bernal, President of SpainNAB and General Director of CaixaBank AM

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