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No need to reinvent the wheel – in The Expert View impact investing pros share their lessons learned. Nico Blaauw tells us how the pandemic changed fundraising practices at Goodwell Investments.

Impact investing needs to be more accessible to wider groups of investors, says Stephen Muers, the new chief executive officer of Big Society Capital, a leading UK impact investor.

The pandemic has rewired the way people think about their power as consumers. It has also supercharged ambitions for circular value chains and sustainable investment and trade in general.

A growing number of social enterprises sees crowdfunding as an alternative to seed capital. We talked to three small investors about how they choose their impact investments.

The Upright Project, the Helsinki-based tech company measuring net impact of companies and industries, is making waves internationally with its admittedly ‘ridiculous ambition’.

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), a global initiative to quantify risks and opportunities presented by investments impacting on nature and biodiversity, was formally launched last week.

The founder of Swedish fintech company Klarna set up the Norrsken Foundation because he saw that NGOs’ dependency on private donations was stifling innovation. The foundation’s CEO explains their raison d’etre.

Diversity pioneer Debbie Clarke, Mercer’s Global Research Chair, gives us her ‘exit interview’ as gender lens investing has just been given a huge boost.

More than two years after its launch the Nasira risk-sharing facility of FMO, the Dutch development bank, expanded its remit to take in entrepreneurs affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

‘DJ’, the charismatic Senior Fund Manager of CBRE GI’s Affordable Housing Fund, tells us “the investment case for affordable housing has never been stronger.” European investors are being attracted by the security of income.