Impact investing

For over 20 years, we have advised our clients on alternative investment categories, the building blocks of an impact portfolio. We construct portfolios where financial and societal returns can be combined, support clients in designing bespoke impact policies, select and monitor high-quality impact managers, and create forward-looking solutions tailored to their needs.

By directing a part of their capital towards businesses, projects, organisations and real assets that are positioned favourably to address global challenges, investors make a tangible contribution to related non-financial objectives while also achieving their financial goals.

We recognise that broad, system-wide change requires smart diversification across asset classes, regions and sectors within each portfolio. Such diversification enhances both risk-return profiles and the breadth, depth and scale of the impact achieved. To achieve this, we aim to design impact portfolios that address interconnected challenges holistically, rather than in isolation, drawing on multiple areas of impact.

Next to a plethora of carefully selected external impact strategies, Van Lanschot Kempen offers two internally managed impact strategies:

Our Private Global Impact Solution contributes to solving global problems around the food, water and climate nexus, while explicitly targeting a Market rate financial return.

Learn more about our Private Global Impact Solution

The Kempen SDG Farmland Fund invests in sustainable agricultural land and is committed to promoting regenerative agricultural practices, including improving biodiversity and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Learn more about our Farmland fund

Back to our sustainability efforts

There’s a saying in Dutch, Kom verder, it means many things and it’s our business philosophy. It captures the way we work with clients but also the way we steer our investee companies to deliver shareholder value through active engagement.

Capital at risk. The value of investments and the income from them can fall as well as rise, and investors may not get back the amount originally invested. Past performance provides no guarantee for the future.