Private equity behemoth KKR has agreed to acquire Dawsongroup, a UK-based asset leasing business, through the investment firm’s global climate strategy. Dawsongroup, a …
Private equity healthcare investment strategies are facing enormous regulatory, financial and headline risks. Two such private equity investors in healthcare, Apollo Global Management …
Investment management and consulting firm Hamilton Lane has launched its third impact fund, ImpactAlpha can exclusively report. The fund has a $600 million …
Institutional investors and other limited partners are getting impatient to get their money back from private equity funds. And as they get crankier …
The backlash to environmental, social and governance, or ESG, investing is in full swing in the U.S. In Europe, asset owners are to …
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 20 – Few big institutional investors would deliberately encourage their portfolio companies to make moves that hit their valuations. The Shareholder Commons, …
ImpactAlpha, March 28 – A trio of Swiss impact investors launched two decades ago with similar missions of boosting financial inclusion in emerging …
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 13 – Institutional investors took awhile “to get comfortable with the fact that we were going to process manure and urine and …
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 18 – The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that financial systems are one disruption away from disaster. Financial markets’ commitment to shareholder primacy …
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 3 – At an earlier peak of COVID pandemic, Domini Impact Investments launched a mutual fund that looked a little different than …
ImpactAlpha, October 26 – Mastercard’s has made a $20 million deposit with Oakland-based CNote to boost the lending power of community development financial …
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 14 – Out: Quiet engagement with executives. In: naming and shaming recalcitrant corporations. As more institutional asset owners look for active …
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 14 – As passive ESG funds emerge as the hottest trend in financial services, active asset managers are touting their ‘impact …
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 7 – When 181 members of the Business Roundtable signed on to a new statement of corporate purpose a year ago, …
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 6 – Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is a vocal proponent of ‘stakeholder capitalism’ and the company was a pioneer in corporate …
Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, an economy officially in recession, and a stock market that seems increasingly divergent from the experience …
ImpactAlpha, September 29 – Bank of America has issued a $2 billion bond to advance racial equity. Proceeds from the five-year bond will …
ImpactAlpha Sept. 29 – S&P Global dropped companies generating more than 5% of their revenues from thermal coal from its environmental, social and …
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 24 – Please don’t call it pro-business. The operating environment created by the Trump administration is at odds with the growing …
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 24 – DWS Group, the $869 billion wealth manager spun out of Deutsche Bank two years ago, has cut back its …
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 10 – UBS said today that it will make sustainable investments “the preferred solution” for clients of its 2.6 trillion global …
In a world where innovation is revered, it can be easy to forget the value of tried and tested tools. When Covid-19 revealed …
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 10 – Every day, with their commitment and their capital, impact investors and other Agents of Impact are writing a new …
ImpactAlpha, September 9 – Credit Suisse is launching an investment fund this month to help clients invest in pollution prevention, the low-carbon transition …
ImpactAlpha, September 8 – German automaker Daimler has issued a €1 billion ($1.2 billion), 10-year bond to transition to clean cars. Daimler’s bond …
Public equity markets have historically been overlooked in the impact investing space, traditionally a domain for credit and private market financing. We see …
ImpactAlpha, August 26 – An increasing number of sustainability-linked loans reward companies with lower interest rates if they meet environmental and social milestones …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 10 – Public market investors increasingly are deploying ESG, or environmental, social and governance, investing strategies to manage risks and opportunities …
ImpactAlpha, August 10 – The first investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund last month backed not just climate friendly tech, but an innovation …
ImpactAlpha, July 23 –Investors may debate the merits of competing sustainability frameworks, or which environmental or social factors are truly material to corporate …
When Amazon announced its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy, it became the latest in a …
ImpactAlpha, July 14 – Investors are flocking to funds keyed to environmental, social and governance factors, or ESG. The Trump administration is trying …
ImpactAlpha, July 13 – Toronto-based advisory firm Rally Assets launched the Rally Total Impact Fund to invest in both private and public impact …
ImpactAlpha, July 8 – How and where we live. How we work. What we want – and need – to consume. The global pandemic has …
How companies deploy their cash reserves is becoming an issue of governance, the ‘G’ in ESG.
ImpactAlpha, June 24 – This season’s plotline on Billions, Showtime’s saga of wealth and corruption co-created by financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, finds Wendy …
Can impact investing chip away at systemic dysfunction? Can deploying financial capital to achieve positive social, environmental and economic outcomes make a dent …
ImpactAlpha, May 28 – Environmental, social and governance, or ESG, issues are getting more airtime this earnings season as investors seek out healthy …
ImpactAlpha, May 26 – Sustainable funds outperformed their conventional peers in the first quarter downturn and held their own in the April bounce …
ImpactAlpha, May 21 – Massive flooding in Midland, Michigan on Wednesday threatened to release chemicals from a Dow chemical complex, where products ranging …
ImpactAlpha, May 19 – As companies get better at defecting shareholder resolutions, there is one vote they can’t duck: board elections. It’s rare …
ImpactAlpha, May 12 – A handful of philanthropic foundations have committed themselves to align 100% of their endowments with their social impact missions. Even …
ImpactAlpha. April 28 – Even before the COVID crisis, this year’s annual general meeting season was shaping up as pivotal. The springtime ritual …
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 23 – Governments are not the only source of quick liquidity in the COVID crisis. Countries and corporations are tapping a growing …
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 22 – It’s not that the ‘E’ in ESG investing is taking a back seat. “It’s more that the ’S’ is …
