Impact investing

As the all-important 2030 deadline to limit global warming looms, are private markets on track to help meet the world’s critical climate needs?

After an era of exuberance, expansion and ‘rockstar’ roles, sustainability in private markets is being more closely tethered to value creation.

Market actors hope that capital deployed with a focus on children can follow a similar trajectory to gender-lens investing.

Outdated assumptions about risk have held investors back from seizing impact opportunities, says Finance in Motion’s CEO Sylvia Wisniwski.

With fundraising in the doldrums and US LPs backing away, impact-focused GPs must look elsewhere for capital.

The cost of impact investing remains an obstacle to attracting GP talent and catalysing LP capital.

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Ben Luckett, who set up Aviva's VC platform in 2015, says low distributed to paid-in ratios have been less of an issue for the investor to date due to the use of evergreen structures.

Assessing impact at exit can be more challenging for investments earlier in the life cycle of a business, says director Eliza Foo.