Toby Mitchenall
Climate will be many LPs' entry point to impact investing; they must know what they are buying.
One of the firm's priorities is to 'explore and deliver further models for investing directly into natural capital solutions', it said on Wednesday.
B Corp certification involves an independent evaluation of a company's social and environmental performance.
Proponents of private markets – and private equity in particular – have always praised the ownership model for its superior governance compared to publicly listed companies; it is time to prove it.
The transition capital team will collaborate with other BlackRock units to come up with 'new investment strategies and funds'.
Comments on stage from TPG's Africa head highlight how the alignment of profit with purpose may not be simple to define.
Some things are certain in this world; one is that the urgent need for standardised ESG data must be part of any serious conversation about sustainability in private markets.
Notes from a call with Kirsten Bode, co-head of European private debt at Muzinich & Co, on ESG margin ratchets, SFDR and ESG exclusion lists.
In this five-minute film, we hear from CalPERS, AP4 and the European Investment Fund about the lack of standardised ESG data in private markets, how this has held sustainability efforts back and why the future is starting to look brighter.
Smita Nakhooda was responsible for integrating the UN SDGs into the Asian Development Bank's investment policies.