Investment

CDC Group has been formally renamed as British International Investment (BII), a name which the organisation says better reflects the scope of its work. BII will play a key role in the government’s plans to mobilise up to £8 billion a year in investments in international projects

Triodos Investment Management’s new fund will invest in companies providing solutions to improve children’s wellbeing and development in five areas: health and wellbeing, education, equal opportunity, access to basic services, and safety

Carbon Equity is trying to remove the barriers preventing young, affluent investors to access impact-driven private equity investments, a market which offers huge growth opportunities

Impact-focused fintech firm Tumelo is on mission to increase engagement among retail investors and pension members, empowering them to have a say on where and how their money is being invested

As Big Society Capital celebrates its tenth anniversary, CEO Stephen Muers salutes the collective achievements of the UK’s largest social impact-led investor and shares his ideas for future growth

Plus: Future Planet Capital new ocean fund, SPEAK for Ukraine platform launched by Portuguese startup, and EIB supports Botswana’s Covid resilience programme

Anita Bhatia urged investors to back solutions that respond to both gender and climate challenges, speaking at the Impact Summit Europe. Diversity and inclusion and the need for mobilising capital at scale to tackle systemic risks were also at debate

As the world moves from one crisis to the next, how should investors respond? From climate change to Covid, to the unfolding war in Ukraine, investors have a crucial role to play, delegates at the Phenix Capital’s Impact Summit Europe heard

Pensioenfonds Detailhandel and Pensioenfonds PostNL are among the growing list of Dutch pension funds increasing exposure to impact investments, allocating €100m and €400m, respectively, to SDG-aligned strategies

A study by the UK’s Pensions for Purpose platform found that 92% of active managers don’t use climate indices to benchmark their carbon metrics, despite their funds being marked as ‘climate focused’