Jennifer Forrest

Low-quality renewables infra projects pushing investors into PE-style investments

A lack of high-quality renewables projects is pushing infrastructure investors into private equity-style investment strategies that back the developers for access, one clean energy investor has claimed.

Blume Equity secures €25m funding from British Patient Capital for first fund

Ara Partners bags $725m from Haslam family office for decarb strategy

Summa Equity acquires Dutch recycling business

We see more value in PE than VC for climate investments, says Apollo

Apollo Global Management has said it is focusing its attention on larger-stage private equity climate investments as opposed to earlier-stage venture capital opportunities.

'Concessionary' returns discussion finally 'put to bed', says Apollo

The question of whether climate investing can produce positive outcomes and concessionary returns has finally been "put to bed", according to private equity investor Apollo.

Eiffel narrowly misses €800m target for second impact debt vehicle

Eiffel Investment Group has held a final close for its second impact debt strategy at €777 million ($864.5 million), narrowly missing its €800 million target.

SUSI acquires 39MW Vietnamese wind farm

BII and FMO commit $6m to UK government's agribusiness support facility

Generalists can provide value-add to impact specialists on transactions

Institutional investors tend to allocate capital towards highly-focused, specialised impact investors rather than those taking a more generalist approach, but both types can add value to a deal.