Urban development & infrastructure

Place-based investing is now central to social impact investing in the UK and gaining strong pension fund support. Many of the lessons learned there can be applied elsewhere in Europe.

The water infrastructure funding gap is the largest of any infrastructure sector in Africa. We sit down with Metito’s Rami Ghandour and BII’s Chris Chijiutomi to discuss their Africa Water Infrastructure Development (AWID) initiative.

A survey by Apha Real Capital shows increased interest from local authority pension funds in social infrastructure investments, ranging from education, health and social housing.

The Urban Resilience Fund is a multi-vehicle blended finance initiative, backed by DFIs and other investors, to support climate-focused projects in sub-Saharan Africa.

The investment will allow Arcadia eFuels to develop the world’s first commercial facility to produce low carbon e-fuels for the aviation sector. 

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

The new fund will focus on addressing major social inequality in the UK, which is growing following the COVID-19 pandemic

With global leaders due to meet next month in Egypt at COP27, the mayors of some of world’s biggest cities have announced a record investment in climate projects for cities in the Southern Hemisphere.

The investment was made through the Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds and supplemented by further investments from MSCI and Fairview Equity Partners

The Article 9 fund is one of Europe’s largest cross-border residential investment vehicles, with a portfolio of around 30 properties in seven countries