Small-scale social impact funds established in Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine have built up diverse investment portfolios, offering hope they can scale up further to tackle major local challenges.
The fund will provide non-dilutive and subordinated risk capital to SMEs operating in the textile and fashion supply chains in India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Turkey.
The consortium, which includes global companies and philanthropic organisations, sees collaborative efforts as a way to close the financing gap for education globally.
The funding aims to deliver on the objectives set out in the Community Enterprise Growth Plan, targeting organisations addressing social problems in underserved places and communities.
The heads of the social impact investment arm of Ferd, the family-owned Norwegian investment company, discuss its diverse range of social impact investments and its desire to drive social innovation across Norway and the Nordics.
The French real estate investment management company has raised €325m for the first close of its third intermediate housing fund, the Fonds de Logement Intermédiaire III.
Miki Yokoyama, managing director of Aurum Impact, talks about the unique opportunity to drive family offices to invest into impact and what is holding them back.
The BluePeak Private Capital Fund II aims to provide flexible credit solutions to Africa’s underserved mid-sized businesses, and has received backing from several European development finance institutions.
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