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Nov 2025Impact investing is gaining ground in Belgium, but what is it?Press→Nov 2025“Impact investing is no longer a tiny niche”: 14% of assets under management in Belgium deliver positive impactPress→Nov 2025Impact investing is becoming more local: “We have problems to solve here too”Press→Nov 2025Belgium lags behind in impact investingPress→Nov 2025Belgian impact market poised for further growthImpact InvestorPress↗Oct 2025Investing with Purpose: The Why, What, and How of Impact InvestingBelgian Financial Forum (Belgisch Financieel Forum)Press↗Oct 2025Interview with Hugo Lasat — New Board Member at Impact Finance BelgiumNews→Oct 2025Opinion: investing with impact means changing the futureNews→Sept 2025September 2025Article→Sept 2025Podcast: Meet the Boss with Pierre HarkayMeet The Boss (podcast, YouTube)Press↗Aug 2025The future of impact investing lies in blended financePress→Jun 2025June 2025Article→Jun 2025Impact investing is increasing its firepowerPress→Jun 2025Belgian impact investors: “ESG is on the ropes, but impact keeps growing”Press→Mar 2025Pierre Harkay (Impact Finance Belgium): “Despite headwinds, impact and sustainable finance remain fully relevant”La LibrePress↗Mar 2025March 2025Article→Mar 2025LN24Press→Mar 2025January 2025Article→Feb 2025IFB Joins the Omnibus Joint StatementNews→Nov 2024Report Launch: The Size of ImpactNews→Nov 2024September 24Article→Nov 2024October 24Article→Oct 2024Pierre Harkay as the Next CEO of IFBNews→Oct 2024Retail investors need easier access to impact investmentsPress→Oct 2024IFB Released a New Policy ReportNews→Oct 2024IFB Welcomes 5 New MembersNews→Sept 2024IFB and Fellow NABs released a Position StatementNews→Aug 2024Newsletter August 24Article→Jul 2024IFB Welcomes 4 New MembersNews→Jul 2024Summer 24 NewsletterArticle→Jul 2024IFB CEO VacancyNews→Jun 2024May 2024 NewsletterArticle→May 2024IFB, Impact Europe and NABs responded to EC’s SFDR summary reportNews→May 2024IFB published the 2023 Annual ReportNews→Apr 2024April 2024 NewsletterArticle→Apr 2024IFB welcomes 3 new membersNews→Apr 2024IFB welcomes 5 new membersNews→Apr 2024Launch of the Impact ManifestoNews→Apr 2024March 2024 NewsletterArticle→Mar 2024IFB signed a statement by Fairtrade Belgium in support of CSDDD.News→Mar 2024February 2024 NewsletterArticle→Feb 2024NAB viewpoints: Local action for global impactImpact InvestorPress↗Feb 2024IFB hosted the first on-site NAB meetingNews→Feb 2024January 2024 NewsletterArticle→Jan 2024Piet Colruyt (Impact House founder): “Achieving social impact through listed investments is difficult”De Beursvoyeurs: Off The Record (De Tijd podcast, hosted on Omny.fm)Press↗Jan 2024Thank you for 2023 and looking forward to 2024Article→Dec 2023SFDR Joint LetterNews→Dec 2023How do you finance a breakthrough project such as Leuven 2030?FDmagazine (Finance & Development Magazine)Press↗Nov 2023Piet Colruyt: “Impact investing will not remain a niche market”Investment OfficerPress↗Nov 2023New Members, Point of View and The 2nd Belgian Impact Day!Article→Nov 2023Impact finance: “Individual investors are showing the Belgian government the way forward”Press→Oct 2023“Impact must become an established part of the market”Press→Oct 2023IFB convening with its members, meeting other NABs and preparing for the 2nd Belgian Impact DayArticle→Sept 2023Back to work at IFBArticle→Aug 2023It’s Time to Redefine FinanceArticle→Jul 2023IFB July NewsletterArticle→May 2023Profile: Steven Serneels on Belgium joining GSG’s network of national advisory boardsImpact InvestorPress↗Dec 2022Belgian Impact Day 2022: Sevan Holemans, Director of SolifinBXFM 104.3 Bruxelles (SoundCloud)Press↗Dec 2022Belgian Impact Day – Steven SerneelsPress→Dec 2022Belgian Impact Day – Piet ColruytBXFM 104.3 Bruxelles (SoundCloud)Press↗Dec 2022Belgian Impact Day – Loic De CannièrePress→Dec 2022Belgian Impact Day – Diane DelavaBECI / Belgian Impact Day (YouTube)Press↗Dec 2022Belgian Impact Day – Cyril LangendorffBECI / Belgian Impact Day (YouTube)Press↗Nov 2022Impact finance represents between 1% and 2.5% of all financial assets in BelgiumBX1Press↗Nov 2022Impact finance is worth between €6 billion and €16 billion in Belgium: a growing sectorLa LibrePress↗Nov 2022Impact Finance Belgium launches with sights on doubling country’s impact investing market to €30bn within five yearsPioneers PostPress↗Nov 2022Céline Vaessen: “Social and financial returns are not in conflict”Press→Nov 2022Belgian investments seeking a better worldPress→Nov 2022Piet Colruyt looks ahead to Impact Week: “This city has all the problems, but also the solutions”BRUZZPress↗Nov 2022Belgian Impact Day 2022: Piet Colruyt, founder of Impact HouseBXFM 104.3 Bruxelles (SoundCloud)Press↗Nov 2022Belgian Impact Day 2022: Céline Vaessen, CIO of SFPIBXFM 104.3 Bruxelles (SoundCloud)Press↗Nov 2022Belgian capital seeks a return from a better worldPress→Nov 2022Investments with social impact are worth 10 billionPress→Nov 2022How Belgium plans to catch up in impact financeLa LibrePress↗Nov 2022Impact funds: a real boost for start-ups?La LibrePress↗Nov 2022Impact finance: “It is important that SFPI sets an example”La LibrePress↗Nov 2022How Piet Colruyt wants to improve the world and earn a returnGondolaPress↗Nov 2022Piet Colruyt and Steven Serneels establish a Belgian institute for impact finance: “We want to start a movement”Trends (Knack)Press↗Nov 2022Belgian impact finance needs to maturePress→Oct 2022Wealthy families seek a good cause that offers a returnPress→Oct 2022Institutional investors remain too scarce in impact investingPress→Oct 2022How combining philanthropy and profit can drive your brand’s social standingPress→

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