impact investing

The consumer-focused private equity firm has previously made investments with a sustainability-slant, such as in alternative protein company Planted.

KKR’s first impact fund is outperforming all its other live PE funds at 39% IRR, according to the firm.

New Forests has made its first foray into Africa with the acquisition of Green Resources through its African Forestry Investment Platform.

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 WHO Foundation and German development bank DEG cite Africa’s underdeveloped private equity industry at AVCA’s London summit.

Comments on stage from TPG's Africa head highlight how the alignment of profit with purpose may not be simple to define.

Border To Coast, a UK pension pool, is pursuing climate impact investments – such as Ardian-backed Hy24’s hydrogen fund – in lieu of a net zero pathway for its £10bn private funds portfolio.

Investors and fund managers discussed industry trends, their concerns and the macroeconomic environment at the Global Impact Investing Network’s 2022 investor forum last week.

Bregal Sphere has made its debut with a natural capital investment, putting this 'increasingly important asset class' at the centre of the firm's new impact strategy.

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.