Lansdown pours £15m into his new green private equity fund

Hargreaves Lansdown co-founder Stephen Lansdown is creating a new green private equity fund.

Lansdown has already allocated £15m of his own money towards the fund, which will invest in renewable energy, such as biomass and solar power, the Sunday Times reports. "I don't like waste and I think the more we can use what we discard, particularly food and agricultural waste, to generate electricity and other by-products such as fertiliser, the better. I'm not doing it for a charitable purpose, but it's an area that deserves investment," Lansdown says. "We're already looking at one or two companies, one of which is creating lavatories that use less water. Another is a company in so...