Investment

The Nature Intelligence Platform will enable businesses to measure and report their impact on nature at scale. Plus, Big Issue Invest | Nature Action 100 |Place-based investing and community engagement.

Impact investor Snowball has expanded rapidly since it was founded seven years ago. We asked CIO Sean Farrell about his approach to developing a healthy portfolio in an uncertain investment climate.  

We meet with the newly appointed managing director of FMO Investment Management, the investment arm of Dutch development bank FMO, to explore his vision for co-investment opportunities.

More than 200 impact managers, private and public impact investors and mission driven startups hear from peers about the challenges and opportunities for impact investing in the Nordics and globally. 

Launched in collaboration with its subsidiaries LBP AM and CNP Assurances, the new fund will finance European infrastructure projects aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Speakers tackled a diverse range of topics at the event, held at a time of intense innovation to meet the challenges of the drive towards more sustainable farming with nature- and climate-positive impacts.

SLM Partners is partnering with Impact Ag Partners to launch the SLM Agri Carbon Fund to invest in regenerative agriculture and carbon storage in Australia.

The UK’s Big Issue Invest has opened applications for its fourth social impact debt fund. We meet with investment director James Potter to understand how it works.

The network will allow institutional investors and local authorities to collaborate on the development of innovative ways to boost investment in deprived areas of the UK. 

Mathieu Nègre, head of emerging markets impact equities at Union Bancaire Privée (UBP), explains that while there is no irrefutable proof that investor engagement is what convinces a company to provide impact data, collective efforts to encourage it do have an effect.