Establishing the linkage between an anchor study and the desired outcome of a product or service sometimes requires making assumptions, and with more assumptions comes greater risk. Together these account for 60 of the possible points. Investors, however, must take an extra step to account for their partial ownership of companies they are invested in. Although it has yet to become mainstream, experts argue that impact investing can lift communities out of poverty while providing economic return to investors. With projected sales of 2. Ayako Yasuda. The Solution The Rise Fund and the Bridgespan Group have developed a methodology for estimating the financial value of the social or environmental good generated by impact investments.