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Investing for Impact: The new role for financial institutions in place-based regeneration
The Impact Investing Institute, Lloyds Banking Group and Metro Dynamics hosted an event to launch the report Building Strong Places: a new, impactful role for financial institutions.
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Investing in Place: An Asset Owner Discussion
Featuring a wide range of pension fund asset owners and place-based impact investing Forum members, this event explored the opportunities presented by place-based impact investing.
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Bridging capital into communities: A practical guide for policy makers
In this report we consider the effectiveness of grant, guarantee and tax relief subsidy approaches in the UK to improve the financing of social enterprises, charities as well as small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs).
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Investing in Place: A Consultant Discussion
This event provided an introduction to the key issues, challenges and opportunities involved in place-based impact investing, followed by a discussion chaired by Pensions for Purpose on consultants’ experiences advising on place-based investments.
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Place-based impact investing with Dame Elizabeth Corley and Pete Gladwell
In the first episode of our In Conversation series, our Chair, Dame Elizabeth Corley, speaks to Pete Gladwell, Group Social Impact and Investment Director at Legal and General Capital about place-based impact investing.
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Report Launch: Is there an investment case for social and affordable housing in the UK?
Launch and discussion of our report that analyses investment into social and affordable housing, and investigates the merits or otherwise of including social and affordable housing assets within institutional investment portfolios.
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Request for proposals – Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) training programme
We are seeking a partner to co-design and deliver a training programme that will help increase the capability and capacity of Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) to take on more institutional investment as part of our place-based impact investing programme.
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Financing structures for place-based impact investing – what works?
In May 2021, our white paper “Scaling up institutional investment for place-based impact” identified a barrier which could prevent institutional investors from adopting a place-based approach: the lack of appropriate financing vehicles through which to invest.
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Originating place-based impact investments
The origination of place-based impact investment opportunities is highly complex, making it difficult to connect institutional investors seeking to adopt place-based strategies with the fund managers and enterprises who meet their needs.
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Scaling up institutional investment for place-based impact
The launch of the place-based impact investing White Paper with presentation and discussion of the project’s findings, recommendations and next steps.
