Investing for Impact: Growing wealth while creating meaningful change

By Greg Smith, Generate Investment Specialist

For KiwiSaver members, this prompts a bigger question: can you genuinely invest responsibly without sacrificing long-term performance? Increasingly, the evidence suggests you can. Many active managers, including Generate, are backing a diverse range of impact-focussed companies, from global leaders to homegrown innovators whose ideas are proving both commercially successful and beneficial for their communities and the environment.

Social housing is one of the clearest examples of this shift.

Generate was the first KiwiSaver provider to invest in community housing, beginning with a $21 million contribution to a social housing bond in 2020. That investment helped fund 118 new, warm, dry homes across three sites.