We advise some of the world's leading investors on impact, ESG, and stewardship 

Better Finance. Improving Lives.

Our Services

  • Better Finance works with clients to originate, design, implement and manage financial solutions through impact and mission-driven investing. We offer advice on direct investments, portfolio construction and asset allocation for achieving impact and return requirements across natural capital, real assets, agriculture, health, insurance and technology sectors, drawing on a network of specialists.

  • Better Finance provides support to asset managers, first time funds, as well as established vehicles to overcome the hurdles unique to their business--whether bringing their ESG policies up to speed, identifying the factors material to their businesses, learning how to pitch to institutional investors with strict ESG and impact requirements, or communicating effectively about ESG and impact to recruit co-investors, advisors and board members.

  • By working with diverse stakeholders over the last fifteen years Better Finance has developed an unparalleled track record to structure solutions driven by disparate risk-return requirements. Through dual-return funds, recoverable grants, DAFs, results-based financing portfolios, impact bonds, thematic, SDG, green and blue bonds, we support the development of instruments suited to the pressing challenges at hand—whether conserving rhinos or eradicating cholera.

Our Impacts

  • $1.4 bn+ impact AUM

    Guiding some of the world’s largest wealth holders into impactful investments

  • 23 bespoke investment structures

    Co-created to match mission and impact-risk-return criteria

  • 60% clients with unique profiles

    Women and minority owned or managed entities

  • 47 countries

    Implementing investments with a global footprint and local stewardship

What's New

  • May 2024: Impact, ESG and ROI published in Impact Investor

    Should we adopt ESG investing as the modus operandi, or avoid it? Part of this debate centres around whether impact investments are achieving their desired impact, writes Better Finance’s Tenke A. Zoltani. Read it here.

  • April 2024: Guidance on thematic debt published with GISD Alliance

    Issuances of sovereign SDG bonds to finance sustainable development priorities have increased over the last few years. Under the leadership of UNDP and UNDESA, as part of the GISD Alliance this guidance co-written by Tenke Zoltani was developed for the benefit of sovereign borrowers considering SDG bonds and investors looking to scale-up investments in these instruments.

  • October 2022: Groundbreaking research on Debt-for-Nature

    Are debt swaps the right way to address funding gaps for developing countries? When and how is debt-for-nature the right solution? How material is nature to debt sustainability? Better Finance recently contributed to this landmark study by Lazard. The report can be accessed through this link.

  • September 2021: Teaching at The Graduate Institute

    It was a pleasure to teach as part of the Certificate of Advanced Studies in SDG Investing at Geneva’s Graduate Institute and we look forward to engaging with students again in 2022.

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