Leapfrog Investments takes stake in Nigerian pension fund manager ARM Pensions

ARM Pension has $1.8 billion in funds under management and reaches 700,000 people. Leapfrog did not disclose the amount of its investment.

Brazil’s Vox Capital scores 26% return in TEM exit

Vox said it made a 26% return when it sold its almost 30% stake in the company to an undisclosed insurance company.

Àrgentil backs low-cost housing developer Tempohousing Nigeria

Tempohousing Nigeria specializes in repurposing shipping containers into low-cost housing.

Seven tech-driven takeaways from Oslo’s Katapult Future Festival

ImpactAlpha, May 30 – SOCAP meets Burning Man meets TechCrunch Disrupt this month at the second annual Katapult Future Festival in Oslo, Norway. The future-fest drew 650 impact investors, technologists and agents of impact from around the globe (including her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit!) to put forward exponential solutions to exponential problems. Here are

Global private equity: Closing the gap between “we already do it” and allocations to impact investing

The gap... There’s a 47 percentage point gap between private-equity limited partners who say they consider environmental and social impact when making investments and those who have dedicated allocations to impact investing

Swedish pension fund adds $100 million to Dutch SDG-loan fund

More capital... The fund’s first close was expected in late 2017, but was reportedly 25% higher than the initial target.
Co-investment… The fund lets institutional investors co-invest with FMO in loans to financial institutions, clean energy projects and agribusiness in developing markets.

How blended finance aims to catalyze private capital for the U.N. Global Goals

Sustainable infrastructure commitments… The plan calls for the formation of a ‘Clean Investment Club’ of asset owners, who would allocate 2% of portfolios to sustainable infrastructure by 2020 and 5% by 2025.
Closing gaps… By 2025, that commitment would mobilize half a trillion dollars a year to sustainable infrastructure and cover about a third of the estimated private sector funding gap.
Priority sectors… The plan prioritizes blended-finance strategies for resilient cities and sustainable land-use.