Archive

  • Real estate ripe for pension impact allocations in 2025, says Apex

    04 December 2024

    Real estate is likely to attract further commitments from pension funds' impact investment allocations through 2025, an investment adviser has told Environmental Finance.

  • Astarte launches $350m Chilean regen-ag strategy

    03 December 2024

    Sustainable real assets investor Astarte Capital Partners is to manage a $350 million regenerative agriculture-focused fund alongside Chile-based Toesca Asset Management.

  • Blue Earth secures $113m for first evergreen impact private credit strategy

    03 December 2024

    Blue Earth Capital has held a first close of its semi-liquid impact private credit strategy at $113 million.

  • Bahamas signs 'ground-breaking' $300m debt-for-nature loan deal

    22 November 2024

    The Bahamas has signed a $300 million loan with Standard Chartered as part of a ground-breaking marine conservation-focused debt conversion transaction developed with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

  • 'UK needs higher pension contributions to capitalise on impact opportunities'

    13 November 2024

    The UK needs to increase its pension contributions if it is to direct more capital towards sustainable solutions, a pension fund network has claimed.

  • IFVI explores impact of product or service with new methodology

    04 November 2024

    The International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) is exploring a future methodology that provides insights into the impact of a product or service rather than the organisation offering it, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • Verdane bags increased US investor interest for €700m decarb fundraise

    30 October 2024

    Decarbonisation and technology-focused private equity firm Verdane has closed its second decarbonisation strategy at €700 million ($757.2 million).

  • More private capital than ever before flowing to Africa, says AIIM

    30 October 2024

    More money is being committed by institutional investors into Africa than ever before, a local infrastructure investor has claimed.

  • Investors 'sceptical' of public ESG strategies likely to increase allocations to PE, says Ambienta

    28 October 2024

    Investors are increasingly reallocating capital away from 'inauthentic' ESG strategies towards the few 'authentic' strategies, amid concerns they don't invest in 'real' environmental investment opportunities, Ambienta has claimed.

  • Bundling social and environmental impact into a single strategy is a 'mistake', claims Mirova

    25 October 2024

    Impact investors who embed social impact investments in a broader strategy, rather than focusing on it solely are making a "mistake", Mirova has claimed.