Pension fund board member Evalinde Eeelens spoke at the at last week’s Impact Investor Conference about how pension funds can navigate geopolitical uncertainty and fiduciary duty while staying aligned to impact.
The Amethis Europe Expansion Fund aims to support European small and medium-sized enterprises seeking to expand into Africa, as well as Europe and the Middle East. The fund has been backed by the EIB, Bpifrance and COFIDES.
The inaugural World Bank-hosted funding from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program is set to unlock $200m in lending for smallholder farmers across five African countries to help bolster food security and resilience to climate change.
The fund aims to support the EU’s climate neutrality objective for 2050, and has invested in key transition sectors including onshore wind, hydropower, energy storage, low-carbon mobility, and energy efficiency.
A new investor-led partnership brings together 20 of the UK’s largest pension providers and insurers to collectively invest in regional economic development and support long-term, sustainable growth across communities.
The global nature intelligence company has partnered with Brazilian R&D institution Firjan SENAI to bring its biodiversity monitoring approach directly to Brazil.
UBP’s head of impact investing talks about how demand for impact from private investors is changing, the role of the younger generations, and how bankers are presenting impact investing to their clients.
The latest report by the Global Impact Investing Network reveals strong growth in impact-related private equity investments, with pension funds now supplying the largest pool of impact capital, reflecting greater institutional involvement.
Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) offer investors a way to align their investments with measurable environmental outcomes, while also serving as a test of both government policy credibility and environmental ambition, according to Ninety One.
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