As governments and investors increasingly embrace impact investing, the next challenge is building the systems that allow it to scale, says Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen, CEO of GSG Impact.
As climate finance grows, the biggest challenge in adaptation may no longer be raising capital but creating the projects, structures, and pipelines needed to deploy it at scale, argues Monty Simus.
Lars Bo Betram, the Danish institution’s CEO, tells Impact Investor how it is tailoring its blended finance products to attract more private institutional investment.
How governance and exit practices differ, and why the time to design exit frameworks is now, according to Bernarda Coello, Ana Pimenta, and Ronald Huisman.
By accelerating pension fund consolidation and encouraging long-term investment, the UK’s new Pension Schemes Act could channel more institutional capital into impact strategies. Yet questions remain over whether smaller impact managers will benefit from the reforms.
As market volatility hits levels unseen since WWII, the Impact Investing Institute’s Sarah Teacher argues investors are using an outdated rulebook, and that an impact lens could strenghten portfolio resilience.
NGO-related and non-NGO related impact investors approach measurement, accountability and impact management in markedly different ways, say Bernarda Coello, Ana Pimenta, Ronald Huisman.
The fund, which is part of Singapore’s FAST-P initiative to mobilise $5bn of investment for green infrastructure in Asia, is seeking more institutional support as it targets a final size of $600m.
Companies with negative contributions to SDG impacts outperform their peers, according to new research, raising questions about the investment case for SDG-aligned portfolios.
Jenn Pryce talks to Impact Investor about how to attract more money to impact investing in difficult times, as well as the organisation’s discussions with European asset managers over setting up a $1bn-plus global impact platform.
A study of 43 impact investors finds that intentionality takes very different forms in practice. Understanding these behavioural differences could offer a more reliable guide to investment decision-making, say Bernarda Coello, Ana Pimenta, Ronald Huisman.
New Forests’ first global offering will target investment opportunities in forestry, agriculture, and complementary markets across North America, Europe, Australia-New Zealand, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa.
From rising inequality to mounting debt, wage suppression is increasingly emerging as a threat not only to workers, but to the resilience of the global economy and financial markets, says Jens Presthus.
Over 90% of charitable funding in the UK goes to the country’s largest charities, leaving grassroots organisations starved of support. Venture philanthropy fund The Fore is trying to bridge that gap.
The fund is targeting 85 million tonnes of carbon sequestration and aims to restore forests, wetlands and mangroves while protecting biodiversity and water resources.
The fund will invest in early-stage agrifood technologies ranging from methane reduction and biological alternatives to chemicals, to precision agriculture and soil health.
The initiative from Women for Women International will have an early focus on lending via local microfinance organisations to small scale enterprises in Rwanda’s agricultural sector.
Blue economy fund managers say investor interest is rising rapidly but regulatory uncertainty, an inadequate tax system, and a lack of interaction between the state and the private sector, among other headwinds, continue to constrain capital flows.
State-backed financial institutions are intensifying the push to develop instruments attractive to private investors in both emerging and developed markets.
Morningstar’s latest asset owner survey finds institutional investors are expanding sustainability priorities to include biodiversity, soil, oceans and wider natural systems, while warning that poor data and immature tools still limit how these risks are assessed in portfolios.
Antony Bugg-Levine helped give impact investing its name. Kieron Boyle has spent a career putting the idea into practice. At LSE, they are now asking a harder question: what would it take to rewire the whole economy around impact?
Rising conflict and instability across the globe is affecting the lives and livelihoods of an increasing number of people, with voices growing louder for the need to ramp up investment.
Wealthy investors often fall short on impact ambitions because they fail to define their goals clearly from the beginning, according to a new guide from leading academic and impact finance institutions.
European investors have backed S2G’s fund, which will target growth-stage companies in food, energy and oceans that offer cost-competitive solutions to climate, supply chain and industrial resilience challenges.
