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TPG has secured three anchor investors for its nascent climate infrastructure fund, while Brookfield is confident it will hit the target for its second transition mega-fund.

The €11bn manager has hired a three-person team from Fiera Private Debt to staff the new office.

The fund will invest in afforestation projects, nature-related tech and commercial forestry.

Bhavika Vyas, a speaker at our upcoming Impact & Transition Investing Summit: North America, discusses deploying capital in a field where track records are often limited.

The decision to focus solely on decarbonisation was 'well received by investors', according to partner Frida Einarson.

The fund's predecessor closed on $7.3bn in 2022.

Instead of one-off, bespoke solutions, blended finance needs to be approached with a more 'wholesale' mindest, according to Dan Firger, founder and managing partner of Great Circle Capital Advisers and a speaker at the upcoming Impact & Transition Investor Summit: North America.

Forestry has more to offer the sustainability revolution than carbon sequestration, according to BTG Pactual's Charlotte Kaiser.

The Dutch pension fund does not expect the path to reaching its goals to be 'linear', says non-executive board member Alfred Slager.

Transition investments have broadly performed in line with wider private markets, research from MSCI shows.