Research on future-making has tended to treat the future in an undifferentiated way. Prior studies have neglected to consider the plurality of possible futures and the variety of futuring techniques through which organisational actors identify, create and disseminate images of the future. This study aims to understand the future in a more nuanced way by offering an understanding of the multifaceted practices of future-making and futuring techniques. Impact assessment in impact investing provides an exciting research site for investigating futuring techniques, as impact investors use prospective impact assessment to explore and enact potential futures. Based on 40 interviews with European impact investors, we highlight the nuanced ways in which impact investors enact the future by unpacking three broad categories of futuring techniques: predictive, explorative, and normative. We also unpacked the role of informal futuring such as ideation or intuition of the future as a core element of future-oriented decision-making. Our analysis revealed how organisations use a combination of these formal and informal futuring techniques in their efforts to anticipate and respond to different potential futures. Our study contributes to the literature on future-making in organisation studies by highlighting the complex and multifaceted nature of future-making, and suggests the need for a more nuanced understanding of the combinations of formal and informal futuring techniques organisations use to navigate and shape the future.