Social impact

Biju Mohandas, global co-head of healthcare investments at LeapFrog Investments, tell us that a “secular shift” in the attitude towards healthcare technology has taken place.

The Southeast Asia Women’s Economic Empowerment Fund, backed by Danish pension fund Pӕdagogernes Pension, has invested in Teky Alpha JSC to support childhood education in Vietnam.

A lack of data means policymakers are “flying blind”, as they seek to pave the way for better jobs in the circular economy of low-income countries, researchers say. 

The four investments to date have been made in funds and intermediaries targeting housing need and loans to charities and vulnerable people.  

We talk to scientist Susan Greenfield, founder of Neuro-Bio, about her breakthrough discovery in the search for a cure to Alzheimer’s, and the potentially huge social impact of investments in biotech.

The Dutch impact investment firm’s new fund has received backing from publicly-funded Invest-NL and development agency Oost NL, among other investors.

Zeynep Ton calls for business leaders to stop seeing employees as a cost to be minimised, and instead recognise they are the ones driving growth and profitability – they are “the gold”.

The fund is the first to be launched on Lloyd’s new investment platform, created as a vehicle to pool the collective resources of the insurance market’s investors.

Launched by the Media Development Investment Fund, the Pluralis Media Anleiheb bond will back media companies providing independent reporting in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

Launched by Oxfam Novib and Goodwell Investments, the Pepea fund will invest in the sustainable agriculture, energy, clean mobility and logistics, and waste management sectors with a focus on female entrepreneurs.