impact investing

Some of the world’s biggest pension funds and insurance companies – including the New York State Common Retirement Fund, Canada’s PSP Investments, NN Group and Varma Mutual – are on the lookout for climate-related investment opportunities.

The impact secondaries firm has hired a veteran of sustainable private equity investing in anticipation of 'a lot of selling activity' by institutional investors.

Affordable housing, social impact and real estate decarbonisation strategies have entered the market in 2022 as the new year will see fundraising conditions tighten.

Creation’s fifth fund, a private equity strategy ‘improving the lives of the unbanked and underbanked across emerging markets’, has closed at $270m.

Despite many private fund investors slowing their pace of allocations, there are a handful of reasons for those raising impact capital to be more optimistic than their mainstream peers.

The Zurich-based manager will back private equity GPs pursing two separate impact themes.

Fund launch marks a new strategy for impact specialist Bridges, atypically investing outside the UK.

The fund is backed by mainly large utility, energy and industrial companies, including Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Williams Cos and Duke Energy

Incofin has compared the water sector to what the financial inclusion space looked like for impact investors 20 years ago.

New Jersey-based Syridex Bio is financing therapies for diseases that disproportionately affect underserved populations.