Keep reading, “Muni investors see through mispriced risks to find alpha and impact,” by Dennis Price on ImpactAlpha. 👋 This Week’s Call: How to spot overlooked impact and risk in municipal bonds.

Dealflow: Follow the Money African Development Bank issues a record $3 billion social bond to combat COVID-19. The three-year Fight Covid-19 bond, one of the largest-ever U.S.-dollar-denominated ...

The Week’s Dealflow Deal spotlight: Mergers and acquisitions. Evidence from the Great Financial Crisis shows that investors that made significant acquisitions have outperformed those that didn’t.

Dennis Price Racial equity investing isn’t about ticking a diversity box. It’s about understanding and investing to tackle social inequities in the U.S. – from education to healthcare, transportation ...

Fund news. Climate advisory firm Pollination rolled out an early-stage fund for climate and nature-focused startups. It’s targeting $150 million and will focus its investments in Australia… Raven ...

BTG Pactual’s Timberland Investment Group secures $1.2 billion for timberland in Latin America. Timberland Investment Group, part of Brazilian bank BTG Pactual, closed its inaugural Latin America ...

Dealflow: Food Waste Bogotá-based RobinFood raises $32 million to expand food access and cut waste. The Colombian startup operates physical and virtual restaurants that make and deliver affordable ...

Jessica Pothering ImpactAlpha, August 15 – TeamApt is tackling financial access by enabling anyone with a mobile phone and point-of-sales machine to become a local bank branch. The Lagos-based fintech ...

Dealflow: Adaptation Finance Pula lands $20 million to offer livestock insurance to smallholder farmers. Insurance tech startup Pula launched in 2015 to provide crop insurance to small scale farmers, ...

“Local government still works. They’re solution-oriented. They’re bipartisan,” says Utah’s Ben McAdams on the first episode of Capital Gains, a biweekly podcast from myself, Matt Posner of Court ...

U.S. sustainable investing tops $17 trillion, one-third of all assets under management. U.S. investors added more than $5 trillion to environmental, social and governance, or ESG, strategies from the ...

Among the suggestions in Part 1 of our roundup: New Forests’ MaryKate Bullen calls for the ‘TCFD for nature,’ a framework for valuing the ‘natural capital’ contributions of forests and agriculture, ...