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A more efficient secondary market: accelerating impact investing – MeltX

MeltX discusses how a more efficient secondary market could accelerate institutional impact investing, through allowing increased allocations to illiquid impact opportunities, recycling capital into higher impact opportunities and enhancing manager accountability for generating impact.

Posted on Oct 07, 2025

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... While the primary market for impact investing has grown to over £1tn globally, much more is needed in order to meet the social and environmental challenges of the world today. The inherent illiquidity of many of these investments, often locking up capital for 10+ years, remains a barrier to the scale required to allow institutions to further positively impact people and the planet.

In this insight, MeltX:
  • Discuss the ways a more efficient secondary market can help accelerate institutional impact investing.
  • Provide a call to action on how to achieve a more efficient secondary market, through collaboration and technology.

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