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.
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A consortium of French institutions have chosen Mirova to manage the Fonds Objectif Biodiversité, which will focus on investment solutions targeting biodiversity preservation.
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 newly elected government has met leading figures from the country’s impact investment sector in a bid to mobilise funding for housing and other social priorities.
The global credit strategy, which aims to address real world issues such as affordable housing, community development and climate has the backing of Gjensidige Pensjonsforsikring, and TIAA.
The Transform Health Fund aims to provide a template for blended finance in Africa’s healthcare sector. Following the fund’s close, we talk about progress so far with Martin Edlund of the Health Finance Coalition, one of the fund’s founding organisations.
The 16th annual PRI in Person conference, held in Toronto, covered a range of issues, including addressing inequality and investing for real-world impact.
The financing of the Dutch life sciences company is supported by the European Commission under its InvestEU programme. Lumicks aims to impact more than one million lives by 2027.
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