Breast cancer deaths disproportionately affect women in low- and middle-income countries. However, healthtech innovations are increasingly making life-saving screening more accessible.
Keynote speaker Sarah de Lagarde will discuss the impact of healthtech at this year’s Impact Investor Conference. But before that, Sarah, a double amputee, will be attempting to climb Kilimanjaro and raise funds for STAND.
Commitments from several regional pension schemes have boosted the fund’s capacity to invest in the development and acquisition of affordable housing in the UK, where there is an acute shortage.
The equity and bond strategies will target both social and environmental impact across nine impact themes and are being made available to both retail and institutional investors.
The German investor believes offering financial incentives to companies if they hit social impact targets should play a greater role in investment strategies.
The gaming sector is growing at an exponential rate. For impact investors, there are a number of pathways forward, but also key considerations around how to affect social change through gaming.
LUMO Labs is planning to support tech companies that make a positive contribution to society in areas including social care, education, climate and sustainable living.
State-owned commercial company COFIDES will manage the fund, which will finance and invest into businesses and projects addressing social challenges across Spain.
There are challenges and opportunities for Austria’s nascent but evolving impact investing ecosystem, according to Alexandra Bolena, one of the three co-founders of Bundesinitiative Impact Investing’s Austria Chapter.
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