Impact investing continues to play a pivotal role in channelling private capital towards projects and companies that can help to address a wide range of social and environmental challenges. What’s more, there could be huge opportunities to unlock investments that target tangible, real-world impact, as calls to turn rhetoric into action on climate and sustainability intensify during this Decade of Action and beyond.
In this paper, M&G discuss why they believe private debt, as an asset class, is particularly well-suited to impact investment, and highlight some of the factors that need to be taken into account when building multi-theme private debt impact portfolios.