Investment

The climate fund, which exceeded its original funding goal, aims to support emissions reduction solutions in industries where they are hard to achieve. 

The fund, run by Azimut Investments, will provide debt to more than 50 Italian SMEs with a focus on improving environmental and social aspects of their operations.  

Liam Kennedy talks to Maurice Klaver about PGGM’s private equity sustainable development investment strategy and a growing focus on single SDG funds.

In the second of two articles looking at the capacity building challenge, we talk to BlueOrchard and Earth Capital Limited about their approach to providing support to investees.

The investment has been made via the jointly developed Growth Impact Fund and will help social enterprise Doing What Really Matters in its aim to support 25% of the UK’s prison population into higher education by 2030.

Pension funds and asset owners should be warming to the potential and necessity of biodiversity-themed investments, according to Pensions for Purpose, which produced the report commissioned by Gresham House.  

An interesting collection of essays bridging the world of academia and business with a sting in the tail for impact investors, writes Christopher Walker.

Sustainable bonds – including green, social and sustainability-linked bonds – are seen by investors as a key tool for climate transition. But better standards are needed to create a level playing field.

In the first of two articles on the topic of capacity building, we look at how impact investors are going beyond just injecting capital to providing the support portfolio companies need for their long-term sustainability.

Goodwell Investments and Alitheia Capital, partners in the fund, say Africa’s impact investment opportunities remain strong, despite global market uncertainties.