North American and European investors are some of the biggest providers of impact capital to Asia, creating a power imbalance and impeding the continent’s ambitions to become an impact investing leader. What are the solutions? Laura Joffre reports from the AVPN conference in Hong Kong.
This week: Palestinian beer hits UK shops thanks to social enterprise partnership, AVPN 2026 host city announced, ice cream pioneers call upon Unilever to ‘free Ben and Jerry’s’ – and more.
Paul Chan says Hong Kong is uniquely positioned to channel capital for good, while Naina Subberwal Batra opens the AVPN annual conference with a call for Asia’s impact community to take the lead in building a more inclusive world.
This week: Net Zero Banking Alliance stops operations after mass exodus, UnLtd shifts its endowment investment strategy, impact film Underseen available to the public, and more…
Nurturing the Amazon’s bio-entrepreneurs and switching the power balance with investees are just two of the potentially transformative ideas for impact finance discussed during this week’s Latimpacto conference in Medellín.
Against a shifting geopolitical context, there are not only challenges, but opportunities for the impact community in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ahead of Latimpacto’s fourth annual conference, we explore delegates' top talking points.
Dr Chih Hoong Sin welcomes the UK government’s rediscovered enthusiasm for outcomes funds with the launch of the world’s biggest fund of this type. But we should look beyond its impressive size to focus upon how it can best optimise impact.
This week: the UK prime minister launches a new Civil Society Covenant, impact investments in Greece reach €1.8bn in 2024, half a trillion dollars is invested in gender equality across Asia Pacific, and more.
