impact investing

Gloat helps companies avoid recruiting external candidates and ‘solves a number of internal labour-market inefficiencies’, says Generation IM.

Palisade Investment Partners’ impact investing platform aims to address digital inequity with its A$20.5m cornerstone investment in GigaComm.

Versorgungswerk der Ärztekammer Hamburg has committed $75m to two Blue Earth impact funds – its first private markets impact investments.

Patrizia AG, a global manager of real estate and infrastructure assets, has held a first close on €50 million ($52.8 million) for a new fund called Sustainable Futures Ventures.

Impact will be measured across four primary dimensions: society, knowledge, health and environment.

The new hire will lead the firm’s investments in the space, including an expansion from the UK to continental Europe later this year.

The strategy will focus on climate mitigation and adaptation, and protection of water and biodiversity.

Jonathan Dean, head of impact investing at AXA IM Alts, shares some nuggets on the firm’s impact plans over breakfast with New Private Markets.

Katarina Staaf, managing director of AP6 – which invests exclusively in private equity and reported 49% returns last year – has a strategy of ‘transforming industries and business models’ across its portfolio.

The sustainability-focused private equity firm has also signed a lease on an office in Munich.