GIIRS Ratings

"Our investment committee likes to see whether or not the GIIRS fund manager evaluation is in line with our own assessment of the opportunity. Between the two, we can come up with a consolidated, holistic interpretation of a fund manager’s view of impact and a much more valid and trustworthy understanding of the impact of a particular investment strategy. "

"Integrating B Analytics into our process helped us develop more rigor around impact measurement. "

"When a third party benchmarks your performance on a global barometer, it adds credibility. The structure of the impact report was an excellent learning tool. We loved the whole process."

"The structure of the B Analytics report – its ease of communication and efficacy for understanding our impact – was able to guide the investor discussion, along with other considerations that led to the investment decision. "

"We need a standardized way to compare apples to apples across different impact areas. We saw great potential to do this with B Analytics. "

"B Analytics will help streamline reporting, enhance robust benchmarking, add legitimacy to the sector, and enable the broader market to understand what impact investing is."

"We found the Fund Manager Assessment process to be very streamlined, efficient and useful. The rating system is now at a point where fund manager feedback has been integrated and it increasingly meets the needs of fund managers and their investors."

"We had to involve our employees in [the Assessment] so that they were not only aware of but also owned this initiative."

"The Assessment revealed to us that we were engaged in many positive practices but that there was much room for improvement in almost every area we were being scored on. "

"We found B Analytics incredibly helpful to identify the aggregate positive impact of our businesses and evaluate the industry-specific impact of groups we serve. "

"The value of B Lab’s tools is in their ability to inform and enable our local businesses to assess business practices across a range of issues and compare themselves directly with their peers. "