impact investing

The fund was unveiled earlier this year with a $150m anchor commitment from the bank.

The firm has so far committed around $2bn of the $7.3bn fund to deals and has been pleased 'by the scale and persistency of opportunity'.

The Sylvan Group was founded in 2019 and has raised $200m from friends and family.

Investors are appointing GPs to deploy impact allocations through direct and co-investments – as investor demand outpaces the market of established impact funds.

Seven allocators are urging impact managers to report in line with standards laid out by consulting firm BlueMark.

Rebecca Perlman leads the firm's ESG practice in the UK, US and EMEA.

Nuveen’s Rekha Unnithan tells New Private Markets the firm ‘did the right thing by our LPs’ in closing below its original $400m target and says it is already planning its next impact fund.

The firm has linked 100% of its carry to hitting impact goals and will invest in sustainable companies across the food value chain in the OECD.

State-backed investor Nysnø is ‘building a net-zero society on the shoulders of’ Norway’s oil and gas companies' extraction expertise with venture capital climate tech investments.

Investors increasingly seek positive environmental and social outcomes alongside financial returns from their portfolios, but there is much more to the impact label than simply building a wind farm.