Of GPs, 62% say they have declined an investment in the past year due to ESG factors, compared to 55% the year before, according to Investec’s survey of private equity managers.
The renewable energy investor has smashed its €800m target and is looking at new countries and sub-sectors with Fund IV.
Private debt manager Oaktree’s newly announced head of ESG talks to New Private Markets about the firm’s strategy-specific ESG policies, the challenge of quantifying non-financial factors and its limited influence as a private debt investor.
PG Impact Investments, the impact investment firm founded by Partners Group’s founders, is rebranding to Blue Earth Capital and seeks to ‘reach operational independence from Partners Group’.
Partner Bennett Cohen of the San Francisco energy and industry investor, says the firm has adopted an ESG approach to its investing practice.
Private debt managers have made considerable progress but, particularly in North America, there is more to be done.
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Vortex Energy IV, which is targeting $700m, is looking to invest across the energy transition spectrum in Europe, North America and Australia.
The deal comes as the firm is building out its ESG credentials.