Archive

  • The growing importance of social issues for commercial real estate

    16 June 2023

    More investors and developers are considering how real estate can be used to achieve positive social change, Cara Imbrailo writes

  • Profile: Martin Berg of Climate Asset Management

    22 May 2023

    The new CEO of Climate Asset Management, Martin Berg, tells Thomas Cox about the challenge of scaling natural capital.

  • LeapFrog: reaching emerging markets

    19 May 2023

    There is correlation between impact and returns, according to LeapFrog Investments. Peter Cripps reports

  • The impact of listed equities biodiversity funds

    01 May 2023

    As more capital flows to biodiversity-themed listed equities funds, Thomas Cox asks whether it is possible for the strategies to have a positive impact on nature

  • Union Investment: SLBs can have impact

    03 April 2023

    The market needs to promote the strongest SLBs rather than just pile-in on the weakest in order to support the development of a potentially valuable instrument, Union Investment's Johannes Böhm tells Ahren Lester.

  • Six things to know for impact managers

    17 March 2023

    A legal perspective on the complications of raising and managing an impact fund is provided by Oliver Rochman, William Yonge, Carl Valenstein, Zeke Johnson and Divya Thakur

  • The UK's impact label: an intention to be better than SFDR

    08 February 2023

    The UK is proposing a label for 'impact' funds, in a significant divergence from the EU, but some warn it could add further complication, writes Michael Hurley

  • ESG: complex in a vague sort of way

    13 January 2023

    Amid widespread confusion about ESG and impact, Mike Sebastian offers his thoughts on what asset owners can realistically achieve with their investments

  • Lombard Odier's natural capital strategy, two years on

    05 January 2023

    After stellar 2021, the strategy felt the pain in 2022, writes Madeleine Jenkins

  • The climate crisis demands that investors rethink impact

    30 December 2022

    Investments that simply do "some good" are no longer "good enough", argues Tamar Pashtan