impact investing

Both firms announced first closes on Tuesday for market-leading fundraises focused on investments that will address the climate crisis.

Sol Systems’ impact power purchase agreement combines the development of corporate clean energy with investments in under-resourced communities.

Faced with a paucity of scalable impact opportunities, investors like Hesta, Glenmede and PGGM are working out their own way of achieving impact goals, according to research from placement agent Campbell Lutyens.

It sounds like a simple question, but the answer runs to more than 560 pages.

Asset manager M&G is in the market for a private credit impact director to join Catalyst, its £5bn private markets impact fund launched in February 2021.

PG Impact Investments, the impact investment firm founded by Partners Group’s founders, is rebranding to Blue Earth Capital and seeks to ‘reach operational independence from Partners Group’.

New VC manager Eka Ventures has raised £68m for its debut fund for UK start-ups in sustainability, healthcare and the inclusive economy. Eka’s founders say this is the ‘largest impact-driven early stage venture capital fund focused on the UK’.

It set out in 2002 to start an impact investing revolution. What does Bridges do now the revolution has begun?

The US firm has hired Ying Lucy Fan from a battery storage developer to help invest, operate and manage sustainable infrastructure assets.

The group will make recommendations in two areas: impact measurement and new financial products.