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We are entering a pivotal moment. A moment that calls for reflection, imagination, and bold redesign of how capital works. Today’s financial system stands at the threshold of a profound opportunity: to re-engineer the mechanisms that drive finance toward meaningful, measurable impact.

This theme explores how capital can be intentionally structured, allocated, and governed so that real-world solutions become the central driver of investment strategy. The debate is no longer about “impact first” versus “finance first.” Instead, it is about empowering institutional investors and asset owners to reshape capital flows so that solutions, not limitations, steer investment decisions. It is an invitation to rethink what is possible when finance is redesigned for purpose, resilience, and transformative impact.

Capital rooted in the real economy & systems transformation

As geopolitical shifts, and deglobalisation reshape the investment landscape, institutional investors are being pushed to reconnect capital with its real-economy function. This theme explores how finance can drive structural transformation across energy, healthcare, biodiversity, supply chains, and local communities. Sessions under this theme examine systems-change investing, how to influence entire value chains, and how to lower the rising costs of sustainability through technology, collaboration, and smarter incentives. The focus is on deploying capital where it materially shifts economic systems while keeping solutions practical, investable, and scalable.

Modernising the financial toolkit for innovation, liquidity & risk architecture

To meet global transition needs, institutional investors must go beyond traditional structures. This theme highlights the innovative financing models reshaping impact capital markets from securitisation and blended finance to outcomes-based contracts, fund-of-funds platforms, and public–private instruments. The theme also addresses one of the industry’s most urgent challenges: liquidity. With IPO windows stalled, valuations distorted by AI, and private markets overweight in investor portfolios, new solutions such as secondaries, structured exits, buy-backs, and even the return of SPACs are redefining how impact strategies scale. The sessions explore how investors can mobilise more capital, de-risk unfamiliar markets (including emerging markets), and maintain flexibility in an increasingly constrained environment.

Stewardship, influence, & accountability

Regulatory rollbacks, political polarisation, and diluted reporting frameworks are shifting responsibility back onto investors. Stewardship has become a strategic lever for long-term value creation and systemic risk mitigation. This theme focuses on how institutions can exercise meaningful influence in listed markets, navigate exclusion policies with nuance, engage corporates in transition pathways, and uphold accountability even as regulatory standards soften. It also explores how to streamline reporting, avoid greenhushing, and align stewardship with beneficiary expectations while ensuring that oversight remains effective, not burdensome.

Next wave of capital from families, faith, and foundations

The largest wealth transfer in modern history is reshaping who allocates capital and how. New LPs such as next-gen families, faith-based organisations, and capital from different regions are prioritising purpose, transparency, and real-world solutions. Yet many still face barriers: complexity, unclear pathways, inadequate products, and the misperception that impact requires sacrificing returns. This theme explores how institutions can guide new allocators into credible, scalable impact opportunities through education, accessible product design, simplified measurement, revenue-based impact metrics, and solutions-first narratives. It also covers how to design investment vehicles that are intuitive, liquid, and aligned with intergenerational expectations.

AGENDA 2026 WAS SHAPED WITH THE INPUT FROM INDUSTRY EXPERTS

ADVISING COMMITTEE 2026

Dimple Sahni

Dimple Sahni

Managing Director Multi Asset Impact Investing
Anthos Fund & Asset Management

LinkedIn Connect Advisory Member

Dimple Sahni is a Managing Director Multi Asset Impact Investing at Anthos Fund & Asset Management, a values-based asset manager, rooted in a single family office. She is responsible for originating investments, managing relationships, and helping to execute strategies for the fund portfolios at Anthos Fund & Asset Management dedicated to impact investing across all asset classes including private, listed and real assets. In this defacto Mixed Asset Impact CIO role, she leads the firm’s strategy on impact portfolio construction and asset allocation. In addition, Dimple also serves on the Investment Committee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation in support of 100% mission-aligned investing. In 2021, she was recognised in PEI's (Private Equity International) global list as one of the 10 most influential women investing across asset classes. In 2022/23, she was in the top 50 list of women in Netherlands that work in Sustainable Finance. Originally from India, Dimple is an experienced investment professional – with over 20 years of experience in impact investing, investment banking and venture capital – who began her career in finance working for Goldman Sachs. She then launched a social enterprise focused on education, Epylon, which was later sold to Accenture. After working at L Capital Partners where she was a Kauffman Fellow, she shifted to impact investing at the Omidyar Network, Pierre Omidyar’s philanthropic investment arm. She continued her impact investing career with Unilever Corporate Ventures on its exploration of emerging Asia. Most recently she was fund principal at the Hattery, an early stage impact investing and design firm which was sold to Google. Dimple holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School and a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago. She is based in Amsterdam and she speaks English, Hindi and Dutch.