Snowball has invested in the recently closed Aristata Impact Litigation Fund which supports legal action by under-resourced groups, while achieving uncorrelated financial returns
Respondents show optimism over impact investment opportunities, an improved landscape for specialist recruitment and progress towards impact measurement harmonisation, but are less happy about regulatory developments.
This is the one book investors in Asia and Africa need to read. It is “wonderfully controversial”, says Christopher Walker, though it perhaps leaves the biggest controversy of all hanging in the air.
The European Investment Fund is backing Infinity Recycling’s Circular Plastics Fund which invests in companies developing advanced technologies for the recycling of plastics.
The acute need for innovative approaches to the water crises affecting large swathes of the world was debated at last week’s World Water Week in Stockholm.
Legatum is the largest private investor in the $100m SDG Outcomes Fund developed by UBS Optimus Foundation and Bridges Outcomes Partnerships. CEO Mark Stoleson explains why they are backing this blended finance structure.
Launched in 2020 as a joint venture of Resonance and Patron Capital, the fund has provided safe, secure and stable homes to over 120 women and children.
A risk sharing backstop facility supported by the UK government is running alongside credit guarantees provided by Nigeria’s InfraCredit to make local investment in rural mobile networks more attractive.
Erik Syvertsen, CEO of Oslo-based Norselab, talks about the role of investment in building a world in which we can have our needs met “without compromising nature” and why ‘meaningfulness’ is key to their strategy.
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