{"id":63322,"date":"2018-04-20T01:34:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T05:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63322"},"modified":"2018-04-20T01:34:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T05:34:26","slug":"avenue-capital-to-launch-impact-investment-fund-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2018\/avenue-capital-to-launch-impact-investment-fund-source-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Avenue Capital to Launch &#8216;Impact&#8217; Investment Fund, Source Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Avenue Capital Group LLC, a New York-based investment firm with $9.4 billion in assets under management, plans to launch a fund this year that will focus on so-called impact credit investments, according to a person familiar with the matter.  <\/p>\n<p>The Avenue fund will primarily make debt investments, along with some equity, in North American companies, the source said. That could include businesses that aspire to have a social or environmental impact in sectors like agriculture, water, renewable energy, energy efficiency and storage, affordable housing and infrastructure resiliency, the source added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-privateequity-avenue\/avenue-capital-to-launch-impact-investment-fund-source-says-idUSKBN1HP2AG\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Avenue Capital Group LLC, a New York-based investment firm with $9.4 billion in assets under management, plans to launch a fund this year that will focus on so-called impact credit investments, according to a person familiar with the matter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63323,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63322\/revisions\/63323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}