impact investing

Dutch bank ABN AMRO has €450m to make direct impact investments; it has no plans to raise third party capital and will reinvest proceeds.

Dimension Renewable Energy is building small-scale solar projects in lower-to-mid-market communities lacking access to clean energy generation.

Bo Bai founded impact firm Asia Green Fund in 2016 following a seven-year spell as a Hong Kong-based partner and managing director at Warburg Pincus.

Our inaugural list of the world's largest impact managers in private markets contains specialists from private equity, private debt, private infrastructure and real estate. It promises to be controversial.

Pension fund Clwyd already has a 4% target allocation to private markets impact investment; it is now prioritising impact with the rest of its private markets portfolio.

The newly established Sustainable Investment Group has raised more than $800m to invest in a market segment where valuations 'are a lot more forgiving' than other parts of private markets, says partner Ken Pontarelli.

A dedicated impact fund could inhibit Advent’s efforts to prioritise sustainability across its entire portfolio, says James Brocklebank, a managing partner at Advent International.

The firm raised $1.3bn for its 2018-vintage KKR Global Impact Fund, of which $300m was committed by New York State Common Retirement Fund.

BlackRock joins the likes of TPG, Bain Capital, KKR, Blackstone, Apollo, Morgan Stanley and Hamilton Lane in creating a dedicated impact vehicle.

How the private markets firm's impact unit would deploy a $5bn climate fund.