impact investing

Faced with a paucity of scalable impact opportunities, investors like Hesta, Glenmede and PGGM are working out their own way of achieving impact goals, according to research from placement agent Campbell Lutyens.

It sounds like a simple question, but the answer runs to more than 560 pages.

Asset manager M&G is in the market for a private credit impact director to join Catalyst, its £5bn private markets impact fund launched in February 2021.

PG Impact Investments, the impact investment firm founded by Partners Group’s founders, is rebranding to Blue Earth Capital and seeks to ‘reach operational independence from Partners Group’.

New VC manager Eka Ventures has raised £68m for its debut fund for UK start-ups in sustainability, healthcare and the inclusive economy. Eka’s founders say this is the ‘largest impact-driven early stage venture capital fund focused on the UK’.

It set out in 2002 to start an impact investing revolution. What does Bridges do now the revolution has begun?

The US firm has hired Ying Lucy Fan from a battery storage developer to help invest, operate and manage sustainable infrastructure assets.

The group will make recommendations in two areas: impact measurement and new financial products.

The fund will follow a growth equity strategy targeting European, Latin American and Indian companies focused on 'impact themes of people, planet and productivity’.

The Key Man will make you laugh, wince and look afresh at private markets and the concept of impact investment.