ESG

Having a shared vision is key when investing in impact funds, says Elleke Maliepaard at German development finance institution DEG.

The UK social impact investing market has grown almost 10-fold over the last decade and continues to accelerate, says Douglas Sloan, managing director at Big Society Capital.

The amount of dry powder dedicated to impact secondaries increased markedly in 2022 – if from a very low base.

The pandemic made existing inequities in healthcare harder to ignore.

An intentional approach to place is required if economies are to work for all, says Shadi Brazell, senior programme manager at the Impact Investing Institute.

How impact investors can meet the needs of students in a post-covid world.

In this five-minute film, we hear from CalPERS, AP4 and the European Investment Fund about the lack of standardised ESG data in private markets, how this has held sustainability efforts back and why the future is starting to look brighter. 

Five levers that will be integral to driving portfolio performance over the next five years.

The firm sees more ethnically diverse male-led funds than women-led funds when looking at emerging managers, according to managing director Patricia Miller Zollar.

A demand that the $206bn state pension consider only ‘pecuniary’ factors when investing does little to change its sizeable private markets programme.