investor allocations

The Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation has earmarked £100m for social impact funds by 2026 and is open to funds that prioritize impact over returns and vice versa.

Investors are appointing GPs to deploy impact allocations through direct and co-investments – as investor demand outpaces the market of established impact funds.

The China-focused fund will follow the model of the original OGCI Climate Investments, which launched in 2017 and lists 25 investments on its website.

Washington State Investment Board has committed more than $1bn to TPG’s four Rise funds since 2017.

The €14bn insurance company’s capital will be co-invested alongside private equity, infrastructure debt and climate insurance funds managed by Schroders and its impact subsidiary BlueOrchard.

The pension's CIO Jonathan Grabel tells New Private Markets it is continuing to gain exposure to climate-related opportunities.

The pension is seeking managers pursuing a broad range of private equity strategies.

Blue Earth is investing $210m of mandate capital alongside its second PG Impact Investments fund – which has closed at $150m – into debt and equity impact fund managers in emerging markets.

The £22 billion UK pension pool has earmarked £1.35bn to climate investments – the largest part of its £4bn private markets investment plan – and is looking at carbon capture technologies and disruptive technologies for hard-to-abate industries.

The Japanese bank plans to commit up to $120m from its impact strategy.