impact investing

Professors Jessica Jeffers and Anne Tucker found no evidence of ‘widespread greenwashing’ when they studied 207 contracts struck by impact investors; here’s how impact was written into the deals.

Lessons from the impact investing world – including how to foster impact at exit – can help translate good intentions to positive outcomes, writes Cecilia Chao, Managing Director of Bain Capital Double Impact.

By monitoring and reporting impact in a consistent and transparent manner, managers can help channel capital to the most impactful investments, writes Connor Teskey, managing partner and head of Brookfield’s renewable power group.

To keep up with demand, investors need to broaden the impact investment pipeline to include mature businesses, writes Apollo's impact chair Lisa Hall.

There is not yet consensus about what constitutes a true impact strategy; debate about definitions could get in the way of much needed progress.

Sophisticated LPs have been aligning themselves with sector-specialist GPs in recent years, and this pair's $500m partnership is a milestone deal.

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals will help investors 'build resiliency back into the fabric of society', write Robert Antablin and Ken Mehlman, co-heads of KKR Global Impact.

The fresh capital from Temasek will be used to anchor LeapFrog Investment’s future funds focused on Asia and Africa.

The fund will track and report its impact performance to investors.

PE-focused impact investments saw higher average returns and greater variation than did private debt investments, according to findings from the Global Impact Investing Network.