At the end of 2025, Octopus Capital – the real assets arm of Octopus Investments – announced the construction of two retirement living sites, which it says will help “tackle the UK’s chronic undersupply of specialist housing for older people”.
British International Investment (BII), the UK’s impact investor and development finance institution, has announced it will be an anchor investor for the Allianz Credit Emerging Markets fund (ACE).
Enko Capital, an African alternative asset manager with USD1.4 billion in Assets Under Management (AUM), has announced that one of South Africa’s largest asset managers, the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), which manages just over ZAR3.5 trillion (USD 204 billion) in AUM, has invested USD30 million into Enko’s private credit fund. The fund is targeting a final close of USD150 million in H2 2026, with a hard cap of USD200 million.
Designed to meet the growing needs of investors seeking to combine financial returns with impact investing, Indosuez Wealth Management writes that it is launching a new international equity investment solution: Indosuez Funds – Impact. Classified as SFDR Article 8, the fund is built around 50 shares of international companies of all sizes.
The Impact Investing Institute has unveiled its latest practical investor guide, “Family Offices: A Roadmap to Impact”.
Bucking the global trend away from impact startups, French business school EDHEC has partnered with private equity firm Ring Capital to drive capital towards entrepreneurial projects that drive social and environmental change.
EDHEC Business School and Ring Capital have announced the creation of GENERATIONS Powered by EDHEC, an impact seed fund for socially- and environmentally-responsible startups.
Despite a growing share of women across five countries reporting impact investing appeals to them, the sixth impact investing survey by the USD218 billion global asset manager American Century Investments shows a gender gap persists.
The firm’s research – which analysed the investment perspectives of 770 institutional investors, who are collectively responsible for USD27.5 trillion in assets and from 28 locations around the world – shows that almost half of these leading investors now have a preference for sustainable investments focused on impact.
JPMorgan Chase and EDF, Britain’s biggest generator of zero-carbon electricity, are collaborating to help power JPMorgan Chase’s UK offices with 100 per cent renewable electricity
