Pensions for Purpose launch Place-Based Impact Investment Forum with The Good Economy

Pensions for Purpose launch their new Place-Based Impact Investment Forum with The Good Economy for local real-economy needs.

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With the UK’s stark need for regional levelling-up increasingly in focus, Pensions for Purpose and The Good Economy announce the launch of a new forum to promote the scaling-up of place-based impact investment (PBII).

Senior speakers representing all types of market stakeholder will participate in a formal launch event on 15 November. They include Angela Barnicle, Chief Officer for Asset Management and Regeneration at Leeds City Council; Pete Gladwell, Group Social Impact & Investment Director at Legal & General; George Graham, Director at South Yorkshire Pensions Authority; and Callum Stewart, Head of DC Investment at Hymans Robertson. Register here to attend. 

Sponsored by Triple Point and with the support of the Impact Investing Institute, the forum brings together key sources of demand for and supply of institutional capital – particularly asset owners, intermediaries, asset managers, local government, and local and regional project partners.

The goal is to increase flows into local and regional UK investment that delivers local social, economic, and environmental benefits, particularly in areas of the country that have suffered from under-investment. Real-economy sectors like housing, infrastructure, SME finance, clean energy and regeneration offer investment opportunities with the potential to meet both investors’ risk-adjusted return targets and local needs.

(The launch of the forum was covered in Pensions Age.)

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