Investment

The impact investing sector needs to listen more to who it is trying to help and move away from ‘billionaire philanthropy’, argue the authors of ‘Letting Go: How philanthropists and impact investors can do the most good by giving up control’…

The start of lithium-ion battery production at Northvolt’s large-scale ‘gigafactory’ in Sweden is the latest milestone in Europe’s drive to establish a homegrown battery manufacturing sector to meet the surge in demand for electric vehicles..

A €3 trillion investor coalition led by Achmea is asking the main Covid-19 vaccine manufactures – Pfizer (BioNTech), Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and Astra Zeneca – to link executive pay to increased availability of vaccines across the globe…

The reluctance of mainstream institutional investors to make impact investments in the high-risk regions where they are most needed, according to a recently published report by the Impact Taskforce, a G7-backed think tank..

InnovationQuarter, the regional economic development agency for the greater Rotterdam-The Hague area in The Netherlands, last week expanded its IQCapital fund with €63.6mn to a total size of €140mn.

Leading the ‘Impact Revolution’ – now in paperback, Ronald Cohen’s classic remains a best seller for good reason.

Without much hype or ado, the European Investment Fund has been busy shaping the market for impact investment in Europe. Experts agree this is something to applaud, but the EIF says it prefers to keep a low profile and lead by example.

The Climate Endowment looks to keep things simple and low-risk. “Big pension funds and institutional investors are conservative, you can’t persuade them to make a trade-off on returns,” says its founder Philippe Desfosses.

Financial institutions will achieve greater impact if they focus on so-called place-based impact investing in regional regeneration, instead of lending to certain sectors.

In an exclusive interview Nick O’Donohoe, the CEO of CDC, the UK development finance institution, reveals details of the bank’s new strategy, a new Chair, and even a new name.