Snehal Shah
Altamar CAM's first impact fund will be a successor to the firm's 2019 first life sciences vehicle.
Carbon Equity, "the Moonfare alternative for impact investing," is seeing growing demand from affluent individuals who want access to climate venture capital funds.
Peter Cashion will lead CalPERS’ stewardship and net zero implementation and ‘develop new investment strategies’.
LACERA, MassPRIM and Northwestern Mutual are among those that have set aside capital to invest in firms owned by women or minorities.
The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority’s impact portfolio outperformed the general portfolio in the last financial year, but ‘we weren’t searching for impact,' director George Graham said at GIIN’s investor forum.
Energy Impact Partners – the world’s 13th biggest impact fund manager – has closed a European fund on €390m with commitments from APG, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Microsoft.
Pollination is targeting $6bn for a series of funds focused on natural carbon sequestration in a joint venture with HSBC Asset Management.
Northern Gritstone, chaired by former Goldman Sachs AM chairman Jim O’Neill, aspires to create jobs and wealth in England’s underfunded North with SDG-aligned seed investments.
CIO Jonathan Grabel says the pension is continuing to gain exposure to climate-related opportunities.
Border To Coast Pensions Partnership, a £22bn UK pension pool, has earmarked £1.35bn for climate funds. About 20 percent of the total will go to venture capital.