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LeapFrog targets $1bn for fourth fund

Private market funds establish group to boost impact fundraising

Impact verifiers BlueMark raise $10 million

MacArthur Foundation: Social bond unlocked immediate Covid-19 action

"The urgent crisis [of the Covid-19 pandemic] coupled with extraordinarily low-interest rates in the bond market made social bonds a good tool for us," according to Debra Schwartz

Adjuvant raises $300m for healthcare venture fund

Adjuvant Capital has raised $300 million for a venture capital fund that aims to accelerate the development of medicine for 'historically overlooked public health challenges'.

People Moves, 31 December: Hiro Mizuno, PRI, Temasek, SASB

GIIN publishes Covid-19 guidance for impact investors

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has published guidance to help impact investors understand how they can best support their investees and enterprises through the coronavirus crisis.

UBS backs $182m impact fund for female tech entrepreneurs

Rethink Impact's second impact fund dedicated to investing in female entrepreneurs in technology raised $182 million at final close, including $56 million from UBS Wealth Management.

Ford Foundation to issue $1bn in social bonds in response to Covid-19

The Ford Foundation is set to issue bonds worth $1 billion with a 'social' label, in a departure from the organisation's usual avenues of fundraising, according to a report by The New York Times.

GIIN leads creation of Covid-19 response impact 'coalition'

An investor coalition has been launched that will seek to amplify the effect of impact investments in the response to the coronavirus pandemic.