This month, Private Equity International‘s Responsible Investment Special features an op-ed by Bridges partner Clara Barby, looking at why (and how) more institutional investors should allocate to impact investment. Last year, Clara (who heads our Impact+ advisory group) co-authored the asset allocation paper produced as part of the G8 Taskforce on Social Investment. In this […]
Read moreLegal & General Property has acquired a portfolio of three care homes from Bridges Ventures for £25.2m. Read the article.
Read moreThe Guardian covers the release of a report by the The Social Impact Investment Taskforce, marking the most ambitious attempt to date to set out a pathway for catapulting social impact investing into the mainstream. Read the article here.
Read moreBridges Property Alternatives Fund has bought its first three investments worth around £30m in separate partnerships with Hub and Evanacre. Read the article here.
Read moreLegal & General Property (LGP), on behalf of its Legal & General UK Property Fund, has bought a portfolio of three care homes from the Careplaces Fund, the specialist healthcare property fund managed by Bridges Ventures in partnership with care home developer Castleoak for £25.2m. Read the article
Read moreBirmingham City Council has launched a new child fostering placement scheme that is being run by Core Assets Group with funding from Bridges Ventures. Read the article
Read moreAfter two years of research the authors of a new book say they’ve identified a dozen funds that stand out in terms of both their impact on society and their financial performance. Read the article
Read morePioneers Post covers the new report launched by Bridges Ventures and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, ‘Choosing social impact bonds: a practitioner’s guide’, and discusses some of its findings. Read the full Pioneers Post article here.
Read moreBank of America Merrill Lynch and Bridges Ventures have published a report reviewing global activity around SIBs. It argues that the sources of revenue and capital on offer via SIBs should be from previously untapped sources, if service providers are to grow their services. Read the article
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Read moreLow-cost exercise chain, The Gym Group, could be set for rapid expansion in the UK and Europe as technology-led gym design takes off, writes Oliver Duggan in the Telegraph. The exercise chain, one of the country’s best-known affordable gym providers, last month looked set for a £300m merger with Pure Gym. The Gym pioneered the […]
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