Impact measurement

Five venture capital funds have worked together to develop a handbook for implementing the European Investment Fund’s approach for linking impact to carried interest.

Healthcare has become a major focus for impact investors. At this year’s Impact Investor Conference, leading voices in the sector discussed the challenges and opportunities of investing to boost innovation and expand access to healthcare.

The International Foundation for Valuing Impact’s interim methodologies will enable companies and investors to measure and value the most significant environmental impacts across the categories of air pollution, land use and conversion, waste and water pollution.

The impact investing market is growing fast indicating mainstream acceptance of the sector. Still, the pace of capital allocation towards the SDGs is far from sufficient to tackle the worst effects of climate change and global inequality, according to the GIIN.

The latest GIIN report shows impact-related investments in public debt, real assets and public equity, in particular, have grown strongly over the last five years, reflecting a move into more sophisticated asset classes.

The Finnish data company aims to bring greater transparency to the market by analysing the impact of companies and funds by sifting through millions of external sources, rather than just relying on corporate disclosures.

Eiffel Investment Group has announced the final close of its Eiffel Impact Debt II fund, which has already deployed nearly 60% of capital raised across 21 European medium sized enterprises.

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 deputy CEO of BlueOrchard Finance and impact head at Schroders Capital shares her vision for impact investing and where she sees the greatest opportunities.

‘ESG tourists’ are packing their bags as the depth and breadth of anti-greenwashing regulation and recent underperformance takes hold, according to latest impact report by WHEB Asset Management.