[Report for Global Companies Released] 'Impact' as a New Trend in Corporate Value Creation: Growth Opportunities and Resilience Unlocked by Impact Investing

Lively GK (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Founder & CEO: Tsuyoshi Taneda, Co-Founder & Co-CEO: Tomomi Miura) has released the seventh report in its series, "'Impact' as a New Trend in Corporate Value Creation: Growth Opportunities and Resilience Unlocked by Impact Investing," on Lively's official website. This series aims to cultivate vision and foresight for a sustainable future. ■ Report Contents This report organizes the value that companies can gain by integrating impact investing—which has recently attracted increasing interest both domestically and internationally—into their business strategies and governance, as well as the process for achieving it. Impact investing is an investment method aimed at generating both financial returns and social and environmental impact, characterized by its contribution to solving social issues through business activities. Within the report, in addition to explaining the latest domestic and international trends and major frameworks, it presents six steps for companies to implement impact. Furthermore, it provides practical perspectives and decision-making guidelines for each company to redefine their own "impact" and connect business with social value. - Executive Summary - Introduction: What is Impact Investing? - Principles and Frameworks of Impact Investing - Domestic and International Trends in Impact Investing - Steps for Responding to Impact Investing - Challenges in Implementing Impact Investing - Connecting Impact and Business Strategy - Conclusion: Growth Opportunities and Resilience Unlocked by Impact Investing ■ Comment from Lively What is now required of companies is a movement to connect diverse social issues, such as climate change and demographic shifts, to corporate value creation, without merely limiting them to reputation enhancement. Impact investing can be said to be one practical approach to concretize this transformation. This report covers impact investment...