The Danish commercial pension fund has so far made impact investments mostly in Denmark and its vicinity, according to CIO Anders Stensbøl, speaking at the GIIN Impact Forum in Amsterdam.
Can you trust investors who buy an impact-driven company to safeguard that mission? Social entrepreneur and impact investor Willemijn Verloop explained why she thinks you can’t, speaking at Impact Europe’s event in The Hague this week.
Achieving impact by investing in private equity funds is hard because it isn’t clear which companies money will be invested in, says PGGM’s Karin Bouwmeester.
Detailhandel, the pension fund for Dutch retailers, claims it has slashed close to 70% of the carbon footprint of its euro credit portfolio by transferring it to a custom-made SDG benchmark.
This summer Impact Investor talks to investors and entrepreneurs about how the pandemic has shifted priorities. This week: sustainability consultant Willem Schramade on ‘impact washing’ in times of crisis.
It’s a question all impact investors are grappling with: how to quantify the impact of their investments. The Netherlands’ largest pension asset manager APG says it has the answer.
The lack of affordable housing is a growing problem across Europe. The continent needs to invest in more decent and sustainable homes. An investment in an ‘energy-positive’ residential tower is showing one way of how this can be done.
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