Peter Cripps

Articles by Peter Cripps

  • Want impact? Invest in private debt, says M&G

    21 November 2018

    M&G says its private debt impact fund gives direct exposure to projects or small companies, and provides healthy returns. Peter Cripps reports

  • UBS-backed platform to help HNWIs support the SDGs

    19 November 2018

    A platform has been launched to make it easier for high net worth individuals (HNWIs) and family offices to put their money into impact investments.

  • Unlocking the trillions: the role of financial centres, regulation and leasing

    16 November 2018

    Increased cooperation between financial centres to promote sustainability, changes in regulation, and more securitisations are some of the solutions that can help unlock the trillions of dollars needed to address climate change, a conference heard.

  • Don't use ESG, it's so 1990s, says Hermes

    15 November 2018

    Investors should look at the sustainability of the companies in which they invest, rather than using backwards-looking environmental, social and governance (ESG) data, Hermes Investment Management has argued.

  • The EU 'should define brown investments, as well as green investments'

    09 November 2018

    Defining a brown investment could be as important a task for the EU's sustainable finance action plan as defining a green investment, it was claimed.

  • Green bond comment, November 2018

    07 November 2018

    The power of green bonds was highlighted to me this week during a trip to Dublin for Climate Innovation Summit run by Climate-KIC.

  • Impact investments 'to hit $30trn within decade'

    05 November 2018

    The value of impact investments could swell to $30 trillion within a decade, one of the founding fathers of the market has predicted.

  • The four characteristics of impact investors

    02 November 2018

    A draft set of four characteristics that define impact investors has been launched, in a bid to help the market continue to "scale up with integrity".

  • Comment from the GIIN conference - will impact investing supplant ESG?

    01 November 2018

    The concept of impact investing is gaining traction. But will it overtake ESG, asks Peter Cripps

  • $120m fund planned to help clean energy firms in emerging markets

    31 October 2018

    The Shell Foundation is to seed a fund that aims to raise $120 million to help young, clean energy-focussed companies in emerging markets.