impact investing

There is one topic that should be front and centre when we meet for the Impact Investor Summit North America in New York at the end of this month: financial returns.

Calvert Impact Capital has begun to refocus its impact efforts on helping children by surveying its portfolio companies.

The Article 9 fund will invest in projects to restore forests, wetlands and mangroves in developing countries.

The pioneering impact investment firm has received commitments from US pharma business Eli Lilley and Dutch asset manager Van Lanschot Kempen and says it has raised a 'significant share' of the $1bn target for Fund IV.

GIIN and CIIP have collaborated to launch a scheme to educate the next generation of impact investors.

OTPP has been analysing nine of its investments to develop a better understanding of how to implement an impact strategy.

The impact manager has received backing from the likes of Big Society Capital and Greater Manchester Combined Authority to address social inequality in the UK.

In the run up to the Impact Investor Summit in New York at the end of the month, HarbourVest's Ed Powers tells New Private Markets that the right type of team is more important than picking a 'winning' impact theme.

Private impact credit strategies in emerging markets are ‘resilient, uncorrelated to the broader market’, amid the fundraising squeeze, Blue Earth head of credit Amy Wang says.

Greater Manchester Pension Fund has worked with The Good Economy to produce a report analysing its local impact investments to date.