Investment

Founded by Lukas Walton, Builders Vision has invested in sustainable ocean investment firm Bluefront Equity, which is focused on making the seafood value chain less wasteful.

The European Investment Fund has made its second investment into IB Deuda Impacto España committing a further €25m to support Spanish businesses generating high social impact.

The UK-based investor hopes to build on the growing interest by pension funds to invest in addressing the country’s housing crisis, according to the head of its homelessness property funds. 

The Good Fashion Fund has provided a $2m loan to K.K.P Fine Linen for the installation of an effluent treatment plant in its recently acquired wet processing facility.

Swedfund has allocated €40m to the Emerging Africa & Asia Infrastructure Fund, focusing on climate resilient infrastructure and digital connectivity in Africa and Southeast Asia.

As governments across the world shift their focus to preventative health, a new Milken Institute report explores ways to finance the reinvention of preventative healthcare in the UK, including attracting more capital from local government pension schemes.

Africa currently has an average electrification rate of 50%, leaving some 600 million people without access to reliable power. The projects form part of a wider initiative to halve that number by 2030.

An investment in Sahyadri Farms is part of the Swiss impact investor’s second Sustainable Food Asia fund, which aims to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, promote sustainable food production, and boost agricultural value chains. 

The gender lens fund has received more than €9m in investment from M&G Investments reaching its fundraising target of €50m, five years after launch.

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