Christopher Walker

Articles written by Christopher Walker

• Insurer Parhelion set to insure the energy transition

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Energy transition

  

  Insurer Parhelion set to insure the energy transition

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Energy transition

  02 Aug 2021

  Julian Richardson, founder of insurer Parhelion, is going to focus on underwriting climate-related investments. In meeting the challenge of the energy transition, new business models and technologies emerge, and, inevitably, new insurance risks, he says.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Interview: BNP Paribas’ Sustainability Head says investors should push for tougher climate laws

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  

  Interview: BNP Paribas’ Sustainability Head says investors should push for tougher climate laws

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  26 Jul 2021

  Jane Ambachtsheer is marshalling her forces at BNP Paribas AM to incorporate sustainability across all its investments. She believes the financial sector has a huge amount of untapped influence on policymakers that it should use to combat climate change.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Profile: ‘Climate change is the greatest opportunity in my lifetime as an investor’

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  

  Profile: ‘Climate change is the greatest opportunity in my lifetime as an investor’

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  19 Jul 2021

  As he launches yet another new investment fund, we talk to Mathieu Chabran, the co-founder of Tikehau Capital, who’s striving “to make impact institutional”.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Learned in lockdown: Large real estate investors flocking into social housing in the UK

  Posted in category:

  • Infrastructure

  

  Learned in lockdown: Large real estate investors flocking into social housing in the UK

  Posted in category:

  • Infrastructure

  13 Jul 2021

  This summer Impact Investor talks to investors and entrepreneurs about how the pandemic shifted priorities. This week: Richard Stonehouse, Head of Residential Investment at Avison Young.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• The dynamo at the centre of the fight for gender equality

  Posted in category:

  • Gender equality

  

  The dynamo at the centre of the fight for gender equality

  Posted in category:

  • Gender equality

  13 Jul 2021

  Jessica Espinoza, VP for Private Equity at DEG/KfW, tells us how she is fighting on all fronts to advance gender lens investing and discusses her latest initiative to bring in more private capital.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Book review: Making Money Moral – How a new wave of visionaries is linking purpose and profit

  Posted in category:

  • Impact measurement

  

  Book review: Making Money Moral – How a new wave of visionaries is linking purpose and profit

  Posted in category:

  • Impact measurement

  06 Jul 2021

  Judith Rodin and Saadia Madsbjerg, veterans of the Rockefeller Foundation “explore a burgeoning movement of bold and ambitious innovators,” and tell us it’s time to add the R of resilience to ‘ESG’.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Profile: CEO Big Society Capital committed to ‘pushing frontiers of impact investing’

  Posted in category:

  • Investment

  

  Profile: CEO Big Society Capital committed to ‘pushing frontiers of impact investing’

  Posted in category:

  • Investment

  21 Jun 2021

  Impact investing needs to be more accessible to wider groups of investors, says Stephen Muers, the new chief executive officer of Big Society Capital, a leading UK impact investor.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Interview: ‘European investors more focused on climate than gender issues’

  Posted in category:

  • Gender equality

  

  Interview: ‘European investors more focused on climate than gender issues’

  Posted in category:

  • Gender equality

  14 Jun 2021

  Diversity pioneer Debbie Clarke, Mercer’s Global Research Chair, gives us her ‘exit interview’ as gender lens investing has just been given a huge boost.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• European investors flock to CBRE’s Affordable Housing Fund

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  • Infrastructure

  

  European investors flock to CBRE’s Affordable Housing Fund

  Posted in category:

  • Infrastructure

  08 Jun 2021

  ‘DJ’, the charismatic Senior Fund Manager of CBRE GI’s Affordable Housing Fund, tells us “the investment case for affordable housing has never been stronger.” European investors are being attracted by the security of income.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Book review: Valuing Nature – A Handbook for Impact Investing

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  

  Book review: Valuing Nature – A Handbook for Impact Investing

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  01 Jun 2021

  Investing in nature and biodiversity is a growing trend that is gaining a lot of attention. Especially now in the run up to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November. William Ginn’s book is required reading for investors interested in environmental conservation.

  

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  • Christopher Walker