The success of the film "Spotlight", which focuses on the catholic sex-abuse scandal in Boston, is a great case study for the recent success of impact investing. Impact investing, which seeks to achieve not only financial but also social and environmental returns, is rapidly growing in importance and in the amount of goals it is able to achieve. Impact investors spent about 20 million dollars on spotlight, and made a profit of 70 million, which means that the large profit can now be put towards causes that have a social, societal, and environmental impact.
In addition, with its growing success, impact investing is rapidly growing as a field, with total amounts expected to top 400 billion dollars yearly. One of the leading impact investing firms, Imprint Capital, has in fact been acquired by Goldman Sachs; proof that for this industry, the only way is up.
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