Sustainable Investors Fund
Since 2000, we have partnered with innovative managers who have built the next generation of impact-oriented investment management companies. This work has culminated in the creation of our GP strategic capital platform, the Sustainable Investors Fund.
GP Strategic Capital Solutions
We are a growth-oriented GP stakes investor. We take minority interests in asset management businesses that incorporate sustainability as a key driver of investment returns. By investing in the growth of exemplary managers, we aim to shape the future of the impact investing ecosystem.
Alignment is critical to how we work with our partners. We invest in managers via a range of bespoke financing solutions and contribute to their growth through strategic, operational, business development, and impact advisory services.
SIF’s Approach
to Impact
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Manager Partnerships
Overview
Aristata is the first commercial litigation funder dedicated to driving positive social and environmental change. It invests in a portfolio of cases across a range of sectors, generating attractive and uncorrelated risk-adjusted returns.
Impact Thesis
Harness the power of private capital and the law to drive systemic impact at scale across climate change, human rights, equality, and justice reform.
SIF Impact Video Series
Overview
Astanor backs disruptive, scalable agriculture and food tech solutions at early and growth stages that have potential for systemic change across global food systems.
Impact Thesis
Address global issues around emissions, health, and hunger by supporting more sustainable agricultural practices and food systems through technology.
Overview
Center Creek uses an innovative approach to affordable real estate rehabilitation and ownership. Its platform of single-family rental homes offers quality affordable housing for residents with a pathway to home ownership plus near-term cash flows and long-term appreciation to investors.
Impact Thesis
Differentiated approach to affordable housing in the US, focused on single-family vs. multi-family, and improved pathways to homeownership among LMI communities.
SIF Impact Video Series
Overview
Community Investment Management is an impact investment manager providing strategic debt capital to demonstrate and scale responsible innovation in lending to underserved borrowers in the US and emerging markets.
Impact Thesis
Contribute to closing the credit gap for micro, small, and medium enterprises within US and emerging markets.
SIF Impact Video Series
Overview
Ecofin U.S. Renewable Energy Trust is a UK Trust investing in a diversified portfolio of mixed renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure assets, predominantly small and medium solar and wind projects in the US.
Impact Thesis
Accelerate the deployment of private capital towards the energy transition in a low-cost, highly scalable vehicle.
SIF Impact Video Series
Overview
Inherent Group is an ESG-integrated investment management firm offering opportunistic, impact-oriented, multi-asset and credit strategies across public and private markets.
Impact Thesis
Demonstrate that leading on material sustainability issues can influence the cost of capital and lead to superior risk-adjusted returns.
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SIF Impact Video Series
Overview
Kepos Capital is a macro-focused firm with a strong risk management program across fund offerings, including a carbon evolution fund focused on diversified, long-only exposure to carbon markets.
Impact Thesis
Increase financial activity in carbon markets, encouraging higher prices in a supply-constrained market and forcing companies to prioritize carbon abatement.
Overview
Lafayette Square is a minority-controlled and led impact focused direct lending platform that uses data analytics to deploy capital and services to growing middle market businesses located in overlooked places.
Impact Thesis
Close the capital gap for middle-market firms in working-class communities, and improve outcomes, especially uptake of benefits, for low-middle income (LMI) workers at borrowing companies by providing benefits and third-party services.
Overview
MSquared is a women-owned real estate impact platform that develops mixed-income, mixed-use projects promoting affordability, sustainability, and inclusion.
Impact Thesis
Unique approach to addressing the affordability crisis by developing new, sustainable projects while also directing capital to women and minority developers.
SIF Impact Video Series
Overview
Norselab is a Norway-based asset management firm with an impact platform providing a range of financing, including growth equity and credit to companies that have the potential to create large-scale impact in global industries.
Impact Thesis
Support a shift in global industries where sustainability is at the core of industrial outputs and operations.
Overview
Osmosis is a research-based, systematic equity investment manager utilizing proprietary carbon, water and waste data to customize resource-efficient portfolios.
Impact Thesis
Shift capital flows to resource-efficient companies by enabling access to data and investment products that focus on corporate sustainability practices.
Overview
Respira International is a carbon finance business helping institutions mitigate their environmental footprint through high-quality, nature-based offsets and emissions reduction solutions.
Impact Thesis
Systemic social impact around climate change through support of natural projects and local communities.
SIF Impact Video Series
Overview
SDCL EDGE Acquisition is a SPAC vehicle targeting opportunities focused on energy efficient and decentralized energy solutions for a lower carbon economy.
Impact Thesis
SPAC structure enables the requisite large-scale financing and access to the public market for companies driving the transition to a lower carbon energy economy.
Overview
SER Capital Partners is a sustainable investment firm targeting middle-market businesses within industrial, environmental, and renewable sectors across North America.
Impact Thesis
Actively contribute to a reduction in carbon emissions while improving energy efficiency in the U.S. and increasing transparency in sustainability reporting.
Overview
Sustainable Development Acquisition I Corp is a SPAC vehicle co-led by SIF and Renewable Resources Group. It seeks to acquire a business addressing global challenges within food, agriculture, water, or renewable energy.
Impact Thesis
SPAC structure allows for convergence of impact, investment thesis, and the scale of public market financing relevant for target sectors.
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SIF Impact Video Series
Operating Principles for Impact Management
SIF’s impact management is aligned with the Operating Principles for Impact Management (OPIM), which was developed by the IFC as a framework for investors to ensure that impact considerations are integrated into portfolio management.
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