A new report outlines the growing momentum among Dutch institutional investors in embracing impact investments. Although more asset owners are committing to a 10% target, some barriers remain.
A new report from the UK’s Impact Investing Institute highlights the country’s leading position in impact investing. However, industry experts warn that addressing existing barriers is crucial for scaling up growth.
Accion and Nuveen are among backers for FlexiLoans, which is helping to support millions of India’s small businesses currently excluded from the mainstream financial system.
Acquiring accurate impact data to support impact investments does not have to mean swamping the often-limited resources of intermediary and beneficiary organisations with complex data requests, according to Oxford University researchers.
The latest monthly report from the Amsterdam-based consultancy shows growth of more than 10% in both the number of infrastructure impact funds on its database and the amount of capital raised by them over the last year.
Attracting public market investment to sub-Saharan Africa’s renewable energy sector is challenging. UK development programme MOBILIST is working with South African fund manager Revego to make the concept more attractive.
Octopus Investments is expanding and diversifying its portfolio as it aims to nearly quadruple assets under management by 2050. Impact Investor talks to Benjamin Davis, the company’s CEO of Fund Management.
Save the Children Global Ventures started out as a small-scale Australia-focused operation to show there was an appetite for “child-lens” investing. Now it’s taking advantage of a range of impact investing tools to scale up.
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