Snehal Shah

The legal and fund services business joins competitors like Apex, IQ-EQ and SS&C with new ESG assessment tool.

Three partners will bolster sustainability-focused Summa’s investment and portfolio management capabilities.

The hydrogen-focused VC firm AP Ventures closed its second fund on $316m this year, with Temasek as an LP.

‘We would expect to see a dedicated fund... in due course,’ says co-president Scott Kleinman.

BlackRock’s Lucy Dale shares five factors in how the asset manager determines ESG risks in its loan underwriting process for infrastructure assets.

Michael Izzo, Hines’s first carbon strategy VP, will help the firm ‘create carbon standards’ for real estate.

The firm is pursuing digital infrastructure investments for climate and social sustainability.

An impact fund could convert a coal power plant to natural gas, but wouldn’t necessarily be an Article 9 fund, Allianz’s Jemima Atkins says.

Emerging tech – which could be seen as ripe for a VC portfolio – will instead be considered part of the firm's infra mix, says Skandia Mutual’s Hans Fredrik Forssman.

Insurance giant is ‘happy to’ provide more favourable lending terms for assets with better ESG performance.