Institutional Impact

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Climate Finance | Roodgally Senatus

Climate Asset Management raises more than $1 billion for nature-based real assets

Institutional Impact | Louie Woodall

Institutional investors grapple with ‘slow-onset’ climate risks – and with how to value resilience

Ownership Economy | Roodgally Senatus

Worker-owned ‘conglomerate’ Obran Cooperative gets a boost from Acumen America investment

Climate Finance | Roodgally Senatus

Washington State Investment Board recommends $400 million allocation to TPG Rise Climate’s second fund

Illustration by Homium.

Inclusive Economy | Roodgally Senatus

With shared-appreciation notes, Homium aims to help home buyers overcome the down-payment hurdle

Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Omidyar Network, Kapor and SF foundations commit $25 million for equitable and ethical AI

Illustration by RWJF.

Dealflow | Roodgally Senatus

Robert Wood Johnson doubles its impact investing mandate with $325 million commitment

Green Infrastructure | Amy Cortese

Institutional investors seek bigger stakes in climate assets in private markets

Photo by Fairview.

Return on Inclusion | Roodgally Senatus

New York Life acquires stake in minority-owned firm Fairview Capital

Sponsored | Sarah Gelfand

Seven red flags institutional investors should avoid when evaluating impact fund managers

Photo by Evondos.

Europe | Roodgally Senatus

Verdane raises €1.1 billion for sustainable European businesses

Photo by SDS Capital Group.

real estate impact | Roodgally Senatus

SDS Capital deploys private equity to finance permanent housing for homeless Californians

Climate Finance | Roodgally Senatus

QBE North America aims to catalyze early-stage climate solutions via Possibilities Fund

Jeffrey Ubben of Inclusive Capital Partners

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Don’t take Jeffrey Ubben’s shutdown of Inclusive Capital for more than he’s worth

Catalytic Capital | David Bank

ImpactAlpha Deal Spotlight: Blending global insurance assets for impact

Photo by Mathieu Stern on Unsplash

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Making impact real, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love values investing

Even before the Maui fires, 2023 had seen a record 15 confirmed weather and climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each.

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Wall Street CEOs fiddle while Maui burns (and the world bakes)

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

For ESG Month, let’s have an honest discussion about the limits of shareholder engagement

Return on Inclusion | Roodgally Senatus

Insight Partners secures $118 million to invest in diverse fund managers

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Forget ESG. The greening of the global economy is a boon for institutional investors.

photo: World Economic Forum

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

In Larry Fink’s letter to investors, ESG is the business imperative that dare not speak its name

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

University of California’s rescue of Blackstone’s REIT exposes rot at the core of institutional asset management

Newly elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

GOP ditches ‘pro-business’ with attacks on ESG that hurt corporations, investors – and red states

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Beware of paper billionaires bearing gifts, and other lessons of the FTX implosion

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard. Credit: Patagonia

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

How Patagonia’s private plan for the public good inadvertently reveals the limits of impact investing

Institutional Impact | David Bank

Walmart heir’s foundation joins small club aligning endowment with mission

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

My summer fun: Parsing the proposals to regulate ESG

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

ESG and its discontents: A defense of HSBC banker Stuart Kirk and a critique of ESG orthodoxy

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

The politics and power of asset management lead straight to the U.S. Supreme Court

Washington, D.C. | Photo credit: Drew Petrimoulx

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Tracing a line from the lack of diversity in asset management to the undoing of Roe v. Wade

Vladimir Putin and EN+ Group's Oleg Deripaska

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

The curious case of the U.S. ESG critic at the head of a Russian aluminum conglomerate

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Divestment gets a reboot as global investors dump Russian assets

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

If crypto is the Wild West of finance, impact investing is the country club

Institutional Impact | Scott Kalb

Race to the Top: How responsible asset allocators are investing for a better world

Alberta Tar Sands | Photo credit: Russ Heinl

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

O Canada, how do your pension plans get high ESG scores when you’re up to your neck in tar-sands oil?

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Long live ESG! ESG is dead! ESG is… stepping up?

A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows former Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq testifying in front of a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee in London | Photo credit: AFP PHOTO / PRU

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Not Cricket: Diversity in asset management must be more than woke signaling

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Oil and inflation challenge green investors, as what goes down does come up

Alok Sharma, President of COP26 | Photo credit: Cubankite

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Keep Calm and Carry On: The British are coming for climate change (so long as their asset managers do the heavy lifting)

Enbridge Line 3 pipeline | Photo credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Target Enbridge, not Exxon, to prevent the lock-in of high-carbon infrastructure

Photo credit: YAKOBCHUK VIACHESLAV

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Some of pension funds’ spectacular returns are coming at the expense of their own beneficiaries

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Speaking truth to power should not be career suicide for ESG professionals

James Coulter, co-founder of TPG Capital | Photo credit: CNBC

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

The education of Jim Coulter, or: How private equity learned to stop worrying and love ESG

Empire State Building in New York City | Photo by William Wachter on Unsplash

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

Another election, another flurry of climate activity from New York City’s pension plans

Institutional Impact | Imogen Rose-Smith

In a world where fairness is in short supply, a star’s fall isn’t enough to redeem private equity