TransCap Initiative

Last updated 24/04/2025

Welcome to the Systemic Investing Practice Guide, your go-to resource for designing and implementing systemic investment programs. This guide explores cutting-edge methodologies for aligning capital with transformative outcomes, offering practical tools and insights to navigate complexity and drive meaningful change. Whether you're an investor, policymaker, or change agent, you'll find actionable strategies to integrate systems thinking into investment practices, prioritize long-term impact, and foster collaboration across stakeholders.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About systemic investing

Systemic investing is an emergent field. At the TransCap Initiative, we work alongside others on building the field’s theory and practice as well as the bridges that connect the two. We do so primarily through original research and innovation and real-world prototyping. Both theory and practice are crucially important at this stage in the development of the field. If you’d like to find out more about systemic investing including what it is and why it is relevant then click on the box just below this paragraph.

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What is Systemic Investing?

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About the systemic investing practice guide

This practice guide adds a practical layer to the conceptual ideas found in our white paper and hallmarks document. Its purpose is to make systemic investing actionable, to show how the ideas at the heart of systemic investing could be operationalized in practice.

So here is what you can expect to find in this practice guide:

• An overarching process hypothesis;
• Descriptions of individual process steps along with examples from practice;
• Specific suggestions and guidance of how to design and implement a systemic investment program; and
• Suggestions for further reading materials for diving deeper into specific areas.

On this main page of the practice guide we lay out the overarching structure of the systemic investing process and provide high-level information on each of the process steps. We also compiled separate deep dive pages with further information and guidance for each of the process steps. These can be accessed by clicking on the colored boxes throughout this page.