impact investing

Impact investing may have started out with a focus on social issues, but environmental concerns are rising further up investors’ agendas, and influencing their strategies.

The impact investment firm has led a funding round in Swedish late-stage biopharmaceutical company Cinclus Pharma.

Cubera, a longtime secondaries investor, is raising its first primaries impact fund and plans to 'explicitly address and manage the sustainability performance' of all its funds, says Bitterling.

Despite all the buzz around the benefits of regenerative farming practices, there have been few private market vehicles dedicated to supporting the transition. That could be about to change.

'Climate, food, health, technology investments… often do not involve the same levels of FX risk,' says foundation investor.

Matt Christensen, global head of sustainable and impact investing at Allianz Global Investing, is looking for a highly specialised GP.

Two ways in which limited partners can cut through the ‘impact-washing’ attempts.

Anecdotal reports of ‘pockets where people are pulling back from new allocations’ have impact professionals on alert for a fundraising squeeze.

Here is what the giant investor is looking for in new impact GP relationships.

Trill Impact uses the same company-specific KPIs for its impact-linked carry as banks use for their financing – ‘in that way we also have an external eye and verification on the plan’.