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Speaking at SuperReturn Asia in Singapore last month, senior executives from PSP and Hamilton Lane said investors may consider allocating to climate strategies from a dedicated pool of capital.

Board member Senator DiSanto expresses concerns about balancing targeted impact and diversification.

It’s a private fund innovation that could be a force for good, but some investors may struggle with it.

Areas like steel, cement, agriculture and others are still being starved of the capital needed to decarbonise.

Impact manager adds ‘upstream’ private equity stakes and developing markets to its fifth infrastructure fund to maintain performance as market returns trend lower.

AXA IM’s Bertrand Loubières is hesitant to set up an Article 9 fund, describing a ‘conflict’ with equity sponsors to obtain emissions data.

Energy Impact Partners – the world’s 13th biggest impact fund manager – has closed a European fund at €390 million with commitments from APG and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

A demand that the $206bn state pension consider only ‘pecuniary’ factors when investing does little to change its sizeable private markets programme.

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.