Archive

  • Just maybe, debt capital markets can save the planet

    30 September 2021

    In its latest report, WWF poses fundamental questions about the debt capital markets, examining their rapid progress in the last five years and anticipating their evolution through this crucial decade, write Margaret Kuhlow and Jochen Krimphoff

  • The billion-dollar funds that have changed impact investing

    20 August 2021

    What does the broader impact market think of large private equity giants' positive impact claims, Michael Hurley asks

  • The IPCC report - 'code red' for humanity

    13 August 2021

    The latest IPCC report should shock the world into climate action - and for investors that means prioritising positive impact, writes Rupert Welchman

  • Impact at scale: Apollo Impact

    03 August 2021

    In the latest in a series of articles on large private equity impact funds, Marc Becker tells Michael Hurley how Apollo is investing for impact

  • Impact at scale: KKR Global Impact

    02 August 2021

    In the latest in a series of articles on large private equity impact funds, Ken Mehlman and Robert Antablin tell Michael Hurley how KKR is investing for impact

  • Impact at scale: Bain Capital Double Impact

    30 July 2021

    In the latest in a series of articles on large private equity impact funds, Bain Capital tells Michael Hurley how the firm is investing for impact

  • Impact at scale: The Rise Fund

    29 July 2021

    In the first of a series of articles on large private equity impact funds, Maya Chorengel and Steve Ellis tell Michael Hurley how TPG is investing for impact

  • Introducing 'instrumental impact' and 'ultimate ends impact'

    23 July 2021

    Freshfields this week released a report on the legal implications of impact investing, which also sought to introduce new terminology to the investment niche. Peter Cripps reports

  • The Impact Investing Institute's Sarah Gordon on the just transition

    02 July 2021

    Place-based impact investments and a 'Green+' Gilt can achieve social co-benefits in the low-carbon transition, Sarah Gordon, chief executive of the Impact Investing Institute, tells Michael Hurley

  • Impact investing for a just transition

    24 June 2021

    The 'absence of people' is a rare weakness of the TCFD framework - but investor engagement to ensure a socially just low-carbon transition could be set for a major boost, an Environmental Finance webinar heard. Michael Hurley reports