Impact Investor Global Summit

Those committing to and deploying impact strategies now have a clear idea of where the financial advantage resides.

A lack of understanding and common language were among the challenges to growing impact in the country identified by practitioners.

The Stockholm-based foundation has committed to invest $349m in European start-ups that use AI for climate, healthcare, food and education investments.

Some LPs that had been moving towards a multi-asset class approach to impact are now taking a more traditional approach, Paula Langton, head of Campbell Lutyens' sustainability practice, says.

The circular economy is experiencing tailwinds, but LPs have not yet flocked to it as a distinct investment theme.

Ocean 14 Capital’s Chris Gorell Barnes says, ‘Science, money, and government are realising that protecting the ocean is the most important thing we must do to protect humanity’.

The Californian state-run pension plan had 'about 50 different engagements' with public and private portcos last year, including discussions about labour standards, says sustainable investments director Travis Antoniono.

Ryan Clancy, head of impact management and AI strategy at Canadian impact investor Rally Assets, expects AI use to move from experimentation to 'widespread adoption' in the next year or two as the industry gains more trust in the results.

Few GPs offer pure-play water strategies, said impact solutions head Angelika Delen at the Impact Investor Global Summit yesterday.

Allocators are refocusing their impact efforts on their own countries and regions, which often means Europe, said speakers at Impact Investor Global Summit in London on Tuesday morning.