Archive

  • Rockefeller AM launches $100m climate fund

    23 September 2021

    Rockefeller Asset Management (RAM) has launched a fund with almost $100 million in assets

  • WBA finds "desperate" and "unacceptable" results in food & agriculture industry

    21 September 2021

    The World Benchmarking Alliance has released its Food and Agriculture benchmark

  • Half of investors have sustainability 'apprehensions', survey shows

    20 September 2021

    51% of investors have "some lingering apprehensions" about sustainability investing...

  • Financial firms must explore 'more radical' solutions to close SDG funding gap

    20 September 2021

    The financial sector upped its funding for delivering the UN Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) in 2020, according to a report, but it needs to provide "bigger and more radical" solutions because Covid-19 has "undone years of progress" towards meeting the targets.

  • PRI bolsters SDG advisory group

    16 September 2021

    Nine new members have joined the Principles for Responsible Investment's Sustainable Development Goals

  • US real estate fund targets $1bn in impact investments

    16 September 2021

    Casoro Group has launched its Onyx Impact Fund to invest in real estate in the US, and set a target of $1 billion in investments over the 10-year life of the fund.

  • Big Society Capital targets £15bn UK social impact market by 2025

    16 September 2021

    Big Society Capital says it intends to catalyse the UK's social impact market to grow to as much as £15 billion ($21 billion) in size by 2025, as it launched a refreshed investment strategy.

  • Jeb Bush-led impact fund manager raises $350m

    16 September 2021

    An impact fund led by former governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, that its managers claim will target "impact-like investing without lagging returns", has raised $350 million.

  • UK regulator urged to go beyond TCFD, and require social impact reporting

    16 September 2021

    Listed companies, asset managers, life insurers and pension providers in the UK should be required to report on social factors as well as environmental factors, the regulator has been told.

  • Schroders plans emerging markets impact fund

    14 September 2021

    UK asset manager Schroders will launch an impact fund focused on listed equity securities in emerging markets.