impact investing

Generation Investment Management, a sustainability-focused firm co-founded by former US vice-president Al Gore, will pursue investment in sectors such as supply chains, the future of work and food and agriculture.

LGT offshoot Lightrock has closed a $300m impact fund focused on Latin America with investors from the region.

The group has appointed New York head Nadir Settles as global head of impact investing.

The trio have teamed up to accelerate and scale regenerative farming practices with a €1bn impact fund that will invest in the enabling process.

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.