Toby Mitchenall
Institutional investors need to broaden their thinking on nature-based solutions to find opportunities to match their risk profiles and scale.
Like other investors, the UK pension is trying to quantify physical climate risk in its portfolio with a developing, but still limited, data set.
The alignment and measurement that is synonymous with good impact management is well suited to help public health systems, said panellists at the Impact Investor Global Summit.
Competitive returns - always a prerequisite for institutional allocators in mainstream private equity impact funds - are starting to materialise.
Stan Miranda, co-founder of the All Aboard Coalition, said investors are operating on the basis that short-term priorities will continue to trump long-term climate needs.
A report produced by Trill Impact and Value for Good would be useful for peers among direct investors and LPs who want to sharpen up their manager due diligence.
Those committing to and deploying impact strategies now have a clear idea of where the financial advantage resides.
Anders Bendsen Spohr, managing partner and head of planetary health investments at Novo Holdings and speaker at this week's Impact Investor Global Summit, describes the need for various groups of investors to collaborate to fill an urgent funding gap.
Rober Schultz, a partner at Capricorn Investment Group and a speaker at the upcoming Impact Investor Global Summit, looks forward to a future in which the world 'impact' is not used in connection with climate investment.
As we gather in London next week for the Impact Investor Global Summit, we will find out how impact themes have fed into investment performance.