Are there important aspects of investing responsibly that we are just too afraid to discuss? The Predistribution Initiative wants us to discuss the elephant in the sustainable private markets room.
Impact to the fore today, as Partners Group's impact offshoot starts to raise capital for the first time, Apax Partners makes impact plans, and a coalition of likeminded groups in the US call for far-reaching change.
PG Impact Investments, the impact firm incubated by private markets giant Partners Group, has launched a fund that will seek ‘market-rate returns’ from climate-related investments.
The US Impact Investing Alliance launches a proposal calling on the Biden-Harris administration to create a more inclusive economy.
The European firm looks set to join its large buyout peers in establishing a fund line that will seek both financial returns and a positive societal or environmental impact.
Hot on the heels of BlackRock's announcement of a decarbonisation tie-up with Temasek this morning, we are all about the climate today. Well nearly: we also bring news of the US SEC, which has reported findings from its ESG-focused sweep. The result? Mixed.
Representatives Maxine Waters of California and Joyce Beatty of Ohio included the two big private equity players among a list of 31 investment managers who received the letter.
After securing a $1bn first close at the end of 2019, the global renewables fund reached an ‘inflection point’ last summer, according to head of renewables David Giordano.
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The PE heavyweight’s GP platform, which aims to back the next-generation of diverse managers, will provide both seed capital and working capital of more than a year to its GPs.