Michael Hurley

• Blended finance fund invests $40m in forests and agriculture

  04 June 2020

  &Green Fund has agreed a combined $40 million in loans to implement sustainable palm oil production and "low-emissions" agriculture practices.

• InvestEco raises CAD100m for sustainable food fund

  04 June 2020

  InvestEco Capital has raised CAD100 million ($74 million) at final close of its third 'sustainable' food impact fund.

• ESG data providers taking impact data seriously - ISS ESG

  02 June 2020

  Specialist sustainability data providers including ISS ESG are aware of the "enormous demand" for products that focus on assessing positive and negative impact of investments, according to the company.

• Blue like an Orange raises $200m for Latin America impact fund

  02 June 2020

  Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital has raised $200 million at final close of its inaugural impact fund, which will target positive social impact in Latin America via private lending.

• Australian impact investments set to grow five-fold by 2025 - RIAA

  01 June 2020

  Exponential growth in Australian investments targeting positive social and environmental impact as well as financial returns could propel the overall size of the market to more than AUD100 billion ($67.3 billion) by 2025, according to the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA).

• €6trn investor group backs call for biodiversity impact framework

  29 May 2020

  Investors with a combined €6 trillion ($6.6 trillion) in assets have backed a call for the development of a methodology to assess physical impacts on biodiversity of investments and corporate behaviour.

• ESG reporting key to ride 'wave' of social housing investment

  27 May 2020

  M&G and Insight Investment are among organisations that have drawn up draft criteria for social housing sustainability reporting, as they suggest "we are at the early stages of what may be a wave of equity investment in affordable housing".

• Legal Framework for Impact to fundamentally reshape finance, says Generation IM

  26 May 2020

  The forthcoming Legal Framework for Impact "will fundamentally reshape the way finance and business is conducted in coming decades", according to Generation Investment Management.

• APG and Axa buy big in €60bn Covid-19 bond market

  22 May 2020

  APG Asset Management has invested €554 million ($604 million) in 'Covid-19 bonds' in recent weeks, a market it estimated could already be as large as €60 billion.

• Asset owners showing ESG data firms the way on impact - PGGM

  22 May 2020

  A forthcoming impact-focused data platform pioneered by Dutch asset owners APG and PGGM could demonstrate to specialist data providers the appeal of covering the impact investing space, according to PGGM's Piet Klop.