Archive

  • Investors 'could be forced to sell impact funds in 2023, creating buyer's market'

    13 January 2023

    Stakes in impact funds will come up for sale this year as pension funds and other asset owners are forced to sell early, following the market ructions of the past year,...

  • Trium Capital launches climate 'impact' hedge fund

    11 January 2023

    Trium Capital has launched the Trium Climate Impact Fund, the firm's first hedge fund that it has classified as Article 9 according to the EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

  • Goldman Sachs raises $1.6bn for climate impact fund

    10 January 2023

    Goldman Sachs Asset Management has raised about $1.6 billion for its first private equity fund to make direct investments in companies for positive climate impact.

  • Robeco: impact washing could rise up agenda in 2023

    09 January 2023

    Robeco expects greenwashing, and increasingly "impact washing", to be a potential black swan event that upsets markets in 2023.

  • Allianz France and L'Auxiliaire invest in industrial fund

    06 January 2023

    Focused on financing sustainable industrial companies in the Lyon and Saint-Etienne metropolitan areas

  • International Foundation for Valuing Impacts begins operations

    05 January 2023

    The International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) has officially started operations.

  • Phenix Capital: 'Emerging markets still not a big presence in public equity impact funds'

    23 December 2022

    Emerging markets account for less than 2% of total capital commitments from public equities-focused impact funds, an impact investment consultant has found.

  • BlueOrchard: blended finance needed to solve inequality, 'the greatest threat to humanity'

    22 December 2022

    Impact investor BlueOrchard called for greater "cross-sector collaboration" between the public and private sectors to help tackle inequality, which it branded "the greatest threat to humanity".

  • Nepal-focused impact fund reaches $72m final close

    21 December 2022

    An impact fund that invests in private sector companies in Nepal has reached a final close, at $72 million.

  • Nordea launches €20m social bond fund

    21 December 2022

    Nordea Asset Management (Nordea AM) has launched a €20 million ($21 million) social bond fund, amid growing interest in the social bond market from fund managers.