Toby Mitchenall
The firm closed its first fund in September last year and has now agreed seven investments.
The universe of impact real estate funds is growing, says bfinance, but allocators must be mindful of a very specific set of risks.
The firm has made three growth investments into food tech businesses in a little over a year.
HitecVision’s successful fundraise shows that investors are ready to embrace green propositions from firms embedded in the oil and gas sector.
Following a request for proposal in April, the pension has made four commitments totalling $135m to minority-owned firms.
Aviva Investors is seeing greater demand for social housing investments that can 'create positive social outcomes whilst also capturing financial returns'.
Investors of different stripes are signing up to services designed to structure and streamline the collection and management of ESG data.
Stockholm-based Worldfavor is used by private equity firms and corporates to gather ESG data from portfolios and supply chains.
This is part of a wider effort by the pension to quantify the impact of its 'targeted sustainability investments'.
A new head of impact and two investment associates are sought to work on the firm's Inspire Impact platform.