Who's investing: archive
Every Who's investing story in Sustainable Investing, newest first. 44 stories
1 story
Net Zero Investor index links revised emissions targets to transition investing plans
The pilot index covers 22 asset owners split between reducing financed emissions and financing reduced emissions.
1 story
FTSE Russell survey: 51% of asset owners apply sustainability to over half their assets
The ninth annual poll of 402 asset owners in 24 countries found 11% apply sustainability across their entire portfolio, up from 0% in 2025.
3 stories
LSEG survey finds 30% of asset owners divesting high-carbon assets
Governance, tax and shareholder rights were the most commonly cited sustainability priority, named by 32% of respondents, up from 18% in 2025.
AIIB commits $50m to TPG Global South climate fund, with up to $50m for co-investments
The vehicle runs parallel to TPG Rise Climate II with ALTÉRRA and is classified Article 9 under EU sustainability disclosure rules.
AIIB commits up to $100m to TPG's Global South climate strategy
The ticket pairs a $50m fund commitment with up to $50m for co-investments in a strategy targeting $2.5bn.
1 story
FTSE Russell survey: 84% of asset owners say they incorporate sustainability into investment decisions
Climate risk was rated seven or higher out of ten by 86% of asset owners, up from 50% in 2023; Net Zero Investor noted investment flows have yet to follow.
2 stories
Ircantec picks Amundi and BNP Paribas AM for $1.86bn climate mandates
Three seven-year equity index funds carry a 50% carbon-footprint cut and a sector-exposure floor.
Ircantec awards nearly €1.6 billion in equity index mandates to Amundi, BNP Paribas AM
Two European equity index funds of nearly €400 million each and an €800 million global fund track a custom MSCI SRI index with a 7% annual decarbonization target.
2 stories
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation commits all assets to closing racial wealth gap
ImpactAlpha reported Oct. 13 that the commitment covers the full portfolio, not a carve-out.
ABP invests €150m with SLM Partners under €11bn climate target
The allocation represents about 1.4% of the Dutch pension fund's €11 billion climate and biodiversity target.
1 story
IFC and BlueOrchard announce emerging-markets private debt vehicle targeting $2bn
The vehicle has $300 million committed at first close, with Tokio Marine Group as anchor investor.
1 story
MacArthur Foundation lifts impact investing allocation 50% to $750 million
The Chicago foundation says the increase begins in 2027 and that returned capital will be recycled into later projects.
1 story
MacArthur Foundation raises impact mandate to $750 million, up 50%
ImpactAlpha reports the foundation's assets at $10 billion, making the mandate 7.5% of that total.
1 story
Saudi Eksab, seeded with $1 billion, anchors Latin American and Caribbean development financing
ImpactAlpha's headline credits a Saudi sovereign wealth fund with the anchor, while the extract attributes the $1 billion seed to Saudi Arabia and does not name the institution holding it.
2 stories
Oregon's $104.6bn pension fund extends emissions reporting to private assets
The Treasury plans to add an engagement specialist and has commissioned Oakledge Advisors to convene a peer group on carbon accounting for complex portfolios.
Nest awards Wellington a £3.5bn emerging markets mandate for ESG risk and stewardship
The £68bn scheme says the appointment followed an internal review and is meant to strengthen ESG risk management and deepen company-level engagement.
1 story
Nest awards Wellington a £3.5bn emerging markets equity mandate
The UK pension scheme is replacing a roughly 1,000-stock systematic portfolio with a 100-to-150-stock active one it says it chose for engagement capability.
2 stories
NYC comptroller proposes $5 billion climate allocation for three pension funds
The boards of NYCERS, TRS and BERS will run independent fiduciary reviews, and the $37.8 billion climate goal has so far been filled mainly by tech-stock appreciation.
British International Investment commits $65m across Zambia and Zimbabwe, anchoring Zanaco's debut sustainability bond
The UK development finance institution takes a $15 million anchor position in Zanaco's $100 million sustainability bond programme and lends $50 million to two Zimbabwean lenders for agriculture finance.
1 story
La Caisse puts $164 billion behind staying the course
At just under a third of assets, the climate allocation is the kind of commitment the North American headwinds have made scarce, and it is defined by La Caisse alone.
2 stories
Charity climate mandates turn into an effect test
Selling a fossil-fuel holding changes its owner, not its emissions — and stewardship only bites at scale.
A $5 billion climate pitch three boards must price
The comptroller's number becomes an allocation only after three separate fiduciary reviews decide that anchoring a pipeline Levine says federal inaction has starved is worth underwriting.
1 story
KIRKBI doubles its climate book into a market it says doesn't work
A family balance sheet is taking the first-loss position in recycled plastics that public capital was supposed to hold.
2 stories
BlackRock wins bpfBouw's fiduciary mandate on ESG data and analysis
The €70bn construction fund's selection defines ESG alignment as reporting capability, a thinner test than the voting record that cost BlackRock smaller Dutch equity mandates.
Africa Eats returns to Malawi for a third time
A rice-processing repeat in one country measures impact agri's progress better than any announced check size.
1 story
Walton puts $25 million into water and nature debt
A $6 billion grantmaker's first loan-and-guarantee pool tests whether water and nature projects can service repayment, not just absorb grants.
2 stories
SK2 backs a debt-and-grant textile fund; the second backer determines if it becomes credit
The structure fits borrowers banks won't price; whether it turns into drawable credit rests on the unnamed second backer.
African pension funds edge into private markets on local growth
The move by Africa's retirement schemes into local private equity and debt rests on a sturdier logic than the concessional money that built these markets — if intention becomes allocation.
1 story
UK pension pools anchor Clean Growth Fund's £81.5m close
Border to Coast and Strathclyde supplied roughly two-thirds of the second climate-tech vehicle.
2 stories
LGPS pools take Clean Growth Fund's second close to £81.5m
With £22.5m from Border to Coast and a £30m Strathclyde stake, public pension funds are setting the terms on UK Series A climate risk.
Pro Mujer layoffs test the gender-lens funding model
A funder pullback is likely to land on field-building intermediaries first, and Pro Mujer is the early read.
1 story
UK plans $540 million loan to forest facility
The loan is a test of whether conservation payments can be an investment, not an aid grant.
2 stories
Dutch state backs €17.2M Series A for chemical-free crop care
Invest-NL's lead check into VitalFluid prices early-stage agtech risk that private capital has not yet underwritten.
Nordic investors put $4M into chip efficiency
An all-Nordic group's stake in Solinide Photonics puts efficiency alongside generation as a sustainable mandate.
1 story
Dutch government puts €2 million into Pearl Capital's smallholder fund
A €2 million public top-up puts the Dutch government directly into Uganda's smallholder credit chain.
1 story
Cal Wellness and First Citizens back a community ownership debt fund
A $3 million commitment from a foundation and a commercial bank asks whether community co-design can stand in for conventional underwriting.
1 story
Zero Gap Fund books exits and a writeoff
The disclosed loss makes the Rockefeller-MacArthur vehicle's returns evaluable as a real portfolio.
1 story
Woodcock's Faella makes the impact-first limited partner case
In an ImpactAlpha interview, impact becomes the primary screen — and the endowment math points fund managers to the long tail.
2 stories
GIC names analyst-trained investor to head sustainability office
The appointment applies the same return-on-capital standard to climate strategy as to GIC's other investments.
Recreatie swaps BlackRock for Cardano on €426m equity mandate
The Dutch hospitality fund's decision extends a pattern of European asset owners cutting ties with big US managers over climate stewardship.