Impact Finance: Driving purposeful investments for a sustainable future
Impact finance is transforming the financial landscape by aligning investments with measurable positive social and environmental outcomes. This training offers participants a clear understanding of impact finance, its importance, and how it differs from other investment strategies. Through interactive exercises and real-world case studies, participants will explore the principles and practices that define impactful investing.
The objectives of this training are to:
- explore what impact finance is and why it matters;
- understand the spectrum of investment approaches, from responsible to sustainable and impact investing;
- introduce key players in Belgium involved in impact finance;
- apply core principles of impact investing through practical exercises.
Total price *
Members: € 300
Non-members: € 330
Partners/ BZB: € 300
Incompany: tailor-made, prices on request
* Price: service in the context of continuing professional training, exempt from VAT
CPD Hours
Banking: 3h general
Insurances: 3h general
Consumer credit: 3h general
Mortgage credit: 3h general
Compliance:
3h
Continuing Professional Development
Available dates
02/04/2025 - 09:00u - 12:30u - Impact Finance: Driving purposeful investments for a sustainable future
15/09/2025 - 09:00u - 12:30u - Impact Finance: Driving purposeful investments for a sustainable future
Please let us know you're interested in this training should there be no date available, the planned date does not suit you and/or this session is full. As soon as about 5 people are registered on the interest list, we will propose a new course date. Your registration on the interest list is free of charge and without any obligation.
Target group
The training is aimed at professionals in the financial sector who are interested in or working with sustainable and impact finance, including investment managers, financial advisors, and sustainability officers.
Required prior knowledge
Basic level training: this training requires no prior knowledge and covers the basics of the subject.
Programme
CONTENT
- Introduction to Impact Finance
- What is impact finance?
- Why is it important in the current financial landscape?
- Spectrum of investment approaches
- Understanding the differences: responsible investing, sustainable investing, and impact investing
- Key actors in Belgium
- Overview of significant players in impact finance
- Interactive Exercises
- Exercise 1: Identifying the impact organizations that attract impact investors, based on the ABC Framework
- Exercise 2: Applying the three key principles of impact investing:
- Intentionality
- Impact measurement and management
- Additionality
- Case studies illustrating real-world scenarios and applications
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
- Duration: ½ day of training (3 class hours)
- Hours: 09:00 to 12:30
- Location: Febelfin Academy: Phoenix building, Koning Albert II-laan/Boulevard du Roi Albert II 19, 1210 Brussels
- Language: This training will be given in English
Methodology
You follow a ‘Classroom training’ in a group. You, the other participants and the teacher are all present in the same classroom at an agreed time. There is an opportunity for interaction and feedback, both from the participants to the teacher and vice versa. The teaching material consists as a basis of a presentation via the MyFA learning platform, supplemented with various other items (such as digital syllabus, presentation, audiovisual fragments, etc.).
Training material: PowerPoint presentation (slides) in English.
Teachers
Wendy Braeken
Durability
