Social impact

The funding came from an investor consortium led by Invest-NL, ABN Amro Sustainable Impact Fund and Quadia and will help the Dutch company to expand its business, finance product development and scale up impact

We meet with impact investing pioneer Andy Kuper, founder and CEO of LeapFrog Investments, and hear how he sees the future of the sector

The Growth Impact Fund invests in UK social enterprises and organisations from underrepresented backgrounds and has secured £8m investment from leading social investors

The Church Commissioners will establish the fund as part of a £100m commitment to support “communities affected by historic slavery” following report linking its endowment to transatlantic slave trade

Tim Gocher, CEO of Dolma Impact Fund, set out to show investors it was possible to make both impact and financial returns in Nepal with his two private equity funds focused on the underdeveloped Himalayan kingdom.

BNP Paribas, Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, Rabobank and Oneplanetcrowd back health impact bond to fund a fall prevention programme for the elderly launched last week

The managing director of Anthos Fund & Asset Management’s impact funds portfolios talks about investing for impact with values as a compass

Impact Investor’s Christian Nielsen visits The Skateroom, a Belgium-based social enterprise “uniting art and skateboarding for a better world”. It is a riot of good vibes, he writes

The UK’s Impact Investing Institute leads efforts to drive more institutional capital into underinvested cities, towns and regions

The UK local authority pension fund has now invested a total of £20m in the National Homelessness Property Fund. The fund buys and renovates properties which then leases to the social housing sector and homelessness charities.