Snehal Shah
Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change recommends managers implement the TCFD and set nearer-term targets on the way to net zero by 2050.
Impact firm is targeting $350m for secondaries fund Clean Growth VI and has concluded deploying Clean Growth V.
Jonathan Dean, head of impact investing at AXA IM Alts, shares some nuggets on the firm’s impact plans over breakfast with New Private Markets.
Katarina Staaf, managing director of AP6 – which invests exclusively in private equity and reported 49% returns last year – has a strategy of ‘transforming industries and business models’ across its portfolio.
GSAM has taken a minority stake in textile recycling business Recover, linking up with Story3, a firm founded by Goldman Sachs veteran Peter Comisar.
Bridges – with an established investor base of UK pensions – has closed its Property Fund V on £350m and set its sights on global investors for its next vintage.
Manulife, the world's biggest timberland investment manager, is planning a carbon credit-generation strategy. Managing director Eric Cooperström is feeling the tailwinds from the influx of net-zero commitments.
Pollination is targeting $6bn for a series of funds focused on natural carbon sequestration in a joint venture with HSBC Asset Management.
Four charts show LPs’ ESG priorities and portfolio exclusions, from an LP survey by Coller Capital.
The INVL Baltic Sea Growth Fund’s portfolio companies scored higher on social than environmental issues last year.