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Every Products story in Sustainable Investing, newest first. 68 stories
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Alantra launches €120M energy transition secondaries with Shell portfolio
A €120 million secondaries strategy seeded with Shell Ventures assets marks transition capital's maturity and gives Alantra a complement to Klima.
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Sustainable funds shed labels for named bottlenecks
Odyssey, Aligned, and Auxxo each price one auditable constraint — solar procurement, a 500 MW pipeline, a founder-share floor — instead of an ESG label that promised everything and proved nothing.
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Auxxo closes a €33m fund and bets on co-founder matching
The Berlin firm's second gender-lens vehicle pairs a 20% founder-share floor with a matchmaking platform aimed upstream of the deal flow.
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Record green quarter leaves sustainability-linked behind
Europe drove Q2 green bond issuance to $193 billion and a 58% share of the sustainable-bond market, while sustainability-linked volumes stayed stuck at $3 billion for a fourth straight quarter.
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Maritime LPs are the real bet in Redstone's €25M blue fund
Redstone's €25M blue fund first close is modest; its port and shipowner LPs will decide if it works.
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Nuveen's fourth C-PACE fund tops $1 billion at first close
Four vintages and $3 billion in commitments mark the point where C-PACE moves from insurer pilot to core allocation.
Nuveen's fourth C-PACE close tops $1 billion on insurer demand
The four-vintage series has reached $3 billion in commitments, and insurers are treating building-efficiency lending as a core allocation rather than a pilot.
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Philips prices healthcare's first EuGB bond
The EU's flagship green-bond label gets its first healthcare issuer as Philips prices a €650 million 2034 deal with 2.7 times demand.
MassMutual Ventures unveils $150m real-assets climate fund
The insurer's venture arm is betting that specialization beats broad climate exposure.
Redstone's first ocean fund close leans on maritime LPs
The €25 million is modest; the ports and shipowners on the cap table will decide whether the fund works.
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Blended finance delivers a $461M Asia climate close
The final close turns a fundraising story into an underwriting test for emerging-market climate credit.
Blended finance fuels a $461 million Asia climate close
The close put public risk capital to work in climate private credit. The unspent $257 million is the test.
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WovenEarth closes $155m cleantech fund-of-funds where curation is the product
One check buys seven underlying funds, 20 direct co-investments and a 250-company book, betting that curation carries the cleantech shelf.
World Bank's $4B sustainable bond draws $11B in orders
A core-buyer order book and a tight spread show labeled credit still clears at scale; transition finance now needs to prove it can.
WovenEarth closes $155M cleantech fund, leans on co-investments
Fund II will ride seven underlying funds and 20 direct co-investments into a portfolio of more than 250 early-stage companies.
Redstone's Blue fund lands €25 million first close with a maritime cap table
A cap table of ports, shipowners, and marine corporates could speed ocean-tech exits, or import the incumbents' caution.
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World Bank's $4 billion bond shows sustainable credit clears at scale
The World Bank's seven-year benchmark was more than two and a half times subscribed. It drew institutional capital and priced 3.9 basis points over Treasuries.
Ninety One's third Africa credit fund takes strategy near $1 billion
The $404 million close, backed by pensions, DFIs and family offices, lifts cumulative fundraising for the strategy near $1 billion.
Ottawa Community Land Trust retail bond courts everyday investors
The bond tests whether a housing nonprofit can sell its mission to retail investors.
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Murdoch heir sets All Aboard climate coalition up for the long run
A possible miss on $300 million hasn't stopped the Murdoch heir from planning in decades.
All Aboard closes $133M fund for climate's missing middle
The fund waits for several independent investors to agree on the same round before committing, and a family office has joined its manager.
Blue Earth's impact secondaries fund gives LPs an exit
A $200 million vehicle backed by the Walton family office puts a price on liquidity in impact investing.
Morningstar finds no yield penalty in ESG income funds
Morningstar research shows ESG income funds delivered income without sacrificing sustainability, undercutting the trade-off argument.
Blue Earth raises $200M for impact secondaries with Walton LP support
The $200M second close puts Walton family money behind an effort to build a secondary market for impact investments.
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WovenEarth closes $155M fund-of-funds for early-stage cleantech
The Palo Alto firm's second cleantech fund-of-funds spreads LP capital across the earliest, riskiest layer of climate tech.
SSE's debut Kangaroo green bond raises about $708m
A two-tranche sale, 2.5 times subscribed, lifts SSE's outstanding green debt to about $8 billion.
Reach Capital closes $265 million fifth fund for inclusive AI
Reach Capital's fifth fund backs startups at the intersection of learning, health, and work, as AI moves to the center of impact investing.
All Aboard Coalition closes $133 million debut climate-tech fund
The collaborative's first fund lands at 44% of the $300 million it set out to mobilize.