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Balancing risk, return and maximum impact is ‘a lot of work’ and doable, says Matt Christensen, the asset manager’s global head of sustainable and impact investing.

Pensions have a fiduciary duty to invest for impact – and can blend risk and return projections to meet portfolio-level thresholds while achieving impact, said panelists at the Impact Investor Global Summit.

There has been a 'complete failure' to convince the wider market of the financial returns of impact investment, says Trill Impact founder Jan Ståhlberg.

Goldman Sachs manages Apple’s first Restore Fund, launched in 2021 with a $200m commitment.

The CEE manager sold Polish canned fish company Graal for a 3x cash-on-cash return after focusing on governance and water wastage.

More than 90% of LPs say they require impact funds to perform in-line or better than their generalist private equity benchmark, according to a survey by Rede Partners.

New York State Common Retirement Fund’s $20bn impact strategy must have the same the risk/return traits as any other investment, says Andrew Siwo.

There is a 'brown discount' that needs to be applied to real estate assets that are not on the right path to net zero, says Schroders Capital's global head of real estate.

EG Capital, an East African and Zambian-focused impact investment firm, is tying 30-50% of its carried interest to its impact targets for its $100m inaugural impact fund.

The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority’s impact portfolio outperformed the general portfolio in the last financial year, but ‘we weren’t searching for impact’, director George Graham said at GIIN’s investor forum.