Christopher Walker

Articles written by Christopher Walker

• Profile: CDC Group committed to staying Africa’s biggest investor

  Posted in category:

  • Development finance

  

  Profile: CDC Group committed to staying Africa’s biggest investor

  Posted in category:

  • Development finance

  25 May 2021

  Nick O’Donohoe, chief executive officer of CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution, talks to Impact Investor about why he’s still committed to Africa.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Profile: Real estate investor partners with charities to offer secure homes for women

  Posted in category:

  • Gender equality,
  • Infrastructure

  

  Profile: Real estate investor partners with charities to offer secure homes for women

  Posted in category:

  • Gender equality,
  • Infrastructure

  18 May 2021

  Patron Capital Partners, a private equity real estate fund, recently launched the world’s first ‘gender-lens’ property fund. Its managing partner, Keith Breslauer, explains why.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Profile: Impax Asset Management demonstrates the case for investing in sustainable companies

  Posted in category:

  • Investment

  

  Profile: Impax Asset Management demonstrates the case for investing in sustainable companies

  Posted in category:

  • Investment

  10 May 2021

  Sustainable investor Impax Asset Management topped the milestone of £30bn of assets under management in March as it continues to grow exponentially. “Covid has reinforced our investment case,” said founder and CEO Ian Simm.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Cultural organisations ‘uniquely placed to achieve social change’

  Posted in category:

  • Social impact

  

  Cultural organisations ‘uniquely placed to achieve social change’

  Posted in category:

  • Social impact

  26 Apr 2021

  Cultural institutions get all the more recognised for their ability to promote social cohesion and cultural diversity. If ever there’s a high urgency to invest in the arts, you could say it is now. Britain’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, Nesta, is showing how.

  

  Written by:

  • Christopher Walker

• Global pandemic strengthening public support for impact investing

  Posted in category:

  • Investment,
  • Social impact

  

  Global pandemic strengthening public support for impact investing

  Posted in category:

  • Investment,
  • Social impact

  05 Apr 2021

  Impact investors are changing their investment priorities in response to Covid. Not least in the response to the racial inequalities exposed by the pandemic. Meanwhile, traditional investors are starting to follow their lead.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Investors strengthen local networks and embrace new technology in times of Covid

  Posted in category:

  • Investment

  

  Investors strengthen local networks and embrace new technology in times of Covid

  Posted in category:

  • Investment

  29 Mar 2021

  Investing in emerging markets requires a lot of local knowledge. Without the possibility of flying out for important field trips, conferences or due diligence, impact investors are looking at investing in their local offices, a network of external consultants and assessment technology.

  

  Written by:

  • Christopher Walker

• Church of England to focus more on its social impact

  Posted in category:

  • Social impact

  

  Church of England to focus more on its social impact

  Posted in category:

  • Social impact

  28 Mar 2021

  The Church Commissioners for England, manager of the Church’s £8.7 billion investment fund, is pushing harder for companies to change. It will use its voting rights to promote diversity at the top of firms and to raise concerns over climate change issues in particular. “We want all of our investments to have an impact,” says Bess Joffe, the Church Commissioners’ new Head of Responsible Investments.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• Insects are a growing market for impact investors

  Posted in category:

  • Agri-food

  

  Insects are a growing market for impact investors

  Posted in category:

  • Agri-food

  21 Mar 2021

  Thanks to their low carbon footprint, insects are becoming increasingly popular as a cheap and alternative form of protein. With the insect-farming business forecast to be worth more than $4.1 billion a year by 2025, according to researcher Arcluster, impact investors have caught the bug.

  

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  • Christopher Walker

• The Skeptic: Will a responsible investor shake up Exxon Mobil?

  Posted in category:

  • Energy transition

  

  The Skeptic: Will a responsible investor shake up Exxon Mobil?

  Posted in category:

  • Energy transition

  21 Mar 2021

  One of Wall Street’s leading responsible investors, Jeff Ubben, has joined the board of Exxon Mobil. This has been widely interpreted as an attempt by Exxon to see off a looming shareholder revolt at its annual meeting in May. Or is it more than ‘impact washing’?

  

  Written by:

  • Christopher Walker