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Adjuvant raises $300m for healthcare venture fund
18 February 2021Adjuvant Capital has raised $300 million for a venture capital fund that aims to accelerate the development of medicine for 'historically overlooked public health challenges'.
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Biodiversity, shipping among Sustainalytics' impact trends for 2020
03 February 2020Sustainalytics has identified biodiversity and 'cleaner shipping' among 10 investment themes for 2020 it says look best placed to contribute positively to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and potentially create impact in addition to financial returns.
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People moves: IOSCO, London Stock Exchange Group, Simmons & Simmons, UBS
19 October 2018Peter Damgaard Jensen has been appointed as co-organizer of the newly founded Global Commission on Adaptation. Damgaard Jensen also acts as CEO of Danish pension scheme PKA and chair of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), an investor association taking action to support a low-carbon future.
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Measuring impact can lead to value for investors, says report
18 August 2016There are five ways investors can benefit from measuring the impact of their investment activities, according to a report from Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN).
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Funds 'would have gained 2% over three years' through divestment
16 November 2015A number of major funds could have boosted their returns by more than 2% over the past three years by ditching fossil fuels, a new tool to measure the financial impact of divestment has found.