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Investing with Positive Impact – Belgian Landscape 2025
By Philea – Belgium’s investing in the positive impact market is gaining momentum as a driving force for positive change. This new survey by Impact Finance Belgium (IFB) provides the most detailed picture to date of how Belgian investors are directing capital towards people and planet — an estimated €108–132 billion, or 14% of total assets under management.
Within this total, two complementary engines are driving transformation:
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Sustainable investing (€101–123 billion; ~13% of AUM): deploying large-scale capital to proven solutions aligned with environmental and social objectives.
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Impact investing (€7–9 billion; ~1% of AUM): targeting innovation, measurable outcomes, and underserved markets to accelerate systemic change.
A clear trajectory towards 2030
By 2030, IFB projects that around 30% of all investments could be directed towards positive impact:
• Impact investing has the potential to triple (to around 3%)
• Sustainable investing could roughly double (to around 27%).
“3% impact investing, 30% investing with positive impact, by 2030”
This report offers comprehensive market-sizing data, investor insights, and a detailed view of the barriers and enablers to scale. It provides a strategic roadmap to mobilise capital at the pace required for a just and sustainable transition.
“The direction is clear, the foundations are strong, and the actors are mobilised. The challenge now is one of scale and speed.”
