Could you name a commercial company you would back as an impact investor? For many, the question is uncomfortable. In our 2026 survey, 39% of respondents called space a vanity project that diverts capital from proven, Earth-based solutions.

Hello Impact Community, September was truly a whirlwind, in the best way. It was wonderful to reconnect with so many of you and to make new connections at Hong Kong Green Week and beyond. Now, with a moment to reflect on everything that happened, we're ready to leap into Q4 with high energy and optimism. The month was knowledge-packed from start to finish: we kicked things off with the SFi Impact Access event, moved into a full slate of HK Green Week activities, and closed wi

"Climate capital is often built on the wrong clock". Anyone who has watched a strong climate company stall, not for lack of vision, but for lack of a patient investor willing to hold through the hard years – recognises this immediately.

Over a quarter of asset owners in Asia Pacific are allocating over half of their assets to impact and environmental, social and governance strategies, with a focus on food and agriculture themes, according to a survey by the Hong Kong-based Sustainable Finance Initiative.

Hello Impact Community, September is shaping up to be one of our busiest months yet. Our CEO Katy Yung will be speaking at the Philanthropy for Better Cities Forum alongside Charles Li of Micro Connect. We also have a full slate of events lined up around Hong Kong Green Week (Sept 7–11), including: SFi Impact Access, our first breakfast gathering in 2H 2026, and a Blended Finance in Action workshop co-organised with Convergence and the Hong Kong Green Finance Association. In

Family Offices Increase in Sophistication, Embracing Systems-Level Impact Investing

Family offices in the Asia-Pacific region are putting more funding into sustainability projects and adopting a “systems-level” approach to make a greater impact, a trend that is set to boost Hong Kong’s role as a hub for impact investing, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFi) is a membership platform for family offices, foundations and fund managers on impact investing, and we welcome the opportunity to contribute to the public consultation on Hong Kong's First Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development (2026–2030).

Building an impact venture often begins with something that is hard to ignore: an environmental or social system that clearly is not working, a problem you have lived through, or a question that lingers long after everyone else has moved on. SFi Innovation Lab brings together founders building practical solutions to those kinds of environmental and social challenges. In this first part of the Founder Interview Series, we asked some of them to reflect on the conviction that fi

Hello Impact Community, July has been a quieter month on the events front, but far from a quiet month behind the scenes. The team has been focused on turning this year’s conversations into something more durable: data, stories and tools to support better capital decisions across Asia Pacific. Next month, we’ll be unveiling the results of the SFi Family Office Impact Survey 2026, our latest look at how family offices and private investors in the region are moving capital today

Just as every coin has two sides, every dollar deployed shapes the world in ways both intended and unintended, for better or worse. For more than a decade, sustainable finance has focused heavily on identifying, measuring, and validating the positive impact generated by investments. Capital was categorised, rigorous frameworks were built, and marketing labels became central to the ecosystem. "Impact" evolved from a vague aspiration into a strict institutional discipline—somet

Hello Impact Community, June has been nothing short of extraordinary – and we’re still riding on the momentum from SFi Impact Week. We welcomed 300+ private investors, family offices, founders and ecosystem builders to our 4th SFi Impact Summit on 3 June in Hong Kong. Under the theme Capital in Action | Impact in Motion, the day unfolded across plenary sessions, workshop salons and the debut of the SFi Innovation Lab – honest, energising and full of purpose. SFi Impact Week

ImpactAlpha | Asia’s Moment: The ‘now generation’ shaping the future of impact investing (podcast)

Looking for partners to co-design thematic vehicles with accessible, pooled structure to deploy impact capital across Asia Pacific We have spent the past twelve months listening across working groups, closed-door roundtables, and field-building dialogues — on ocean finance, social innovation, nature-based solutions, and emerging market fund development — and witnessed a consistent signal emerging. There continues to be a real appetite amongst our community to deploy impact ca

Hello Impact Community, May has been a month of sharp thinking, intimate dialogue, and growing anticipation – and the energy heading into June is electric. We were honoured to host a closed-door conversation with Dr. Ma Jun, China's foremost green finance expert, where a curated gathering of funders, family offices, and practitioners explored blended finance, catalytic capital, and project de-risking across Belt and Road regions – a timely and energising exchange ahead of wha