impact investing

Acre Impact Capital is poised to launch a series of African export finance debt funds and may open an office in Nairobi following investment into the firm by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Private Infrastructure Development Group’s GuarantCo.

Amsterdam-headquartered private equity firm Goodwell Investments has launched its fifth impact fund with a €50m target for fast-growing African businesses.

Government intervention will help mobilise private capital to address global challenges, says the firm’s public affairs and impact head.

PG Impact Investments, the impact firm incubated by private markets giant Partners Group, has launched a fund that will seek ‘market-rate returns’ from climate-related investments.

The US Impact Investing Alliance launches a proposal calling on the Biden-Harris administration to create a more inclusive economy.

The European firm looks set to join its large buyout peers in establishing a fund line that will seek both financial returns and a positive societal or environmental impact.

Mid-market investor EV Private Equity is tying compensation for Fund VI to the achievement of impact objectives.

LPs will soon have trillions to invest in impact but an LP-GP disconnect is hampering progress, writes Jeremy Smith, head of impact at placement agent Rede Partners.

Private credit investors are well positioned to engage with management teams, but more work needs to be done to standardise metrics, writes Will Nicoll, CIO of M&G’s private and alternative assets team.

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