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Mid-market private equity is the right vessel to 'spearhead ESG outcomes', writes Rory Lonergan, executive director of Australian government-owned investor Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

Given ESG-linked facilities are generating ‘a huge amount of interest’, we discuss whether they are the best way to incentivise change.

The rise of new reporting frameworks should help debt funds with disclosure requirements, says John Anderson, international counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton.

As another investor alliance is created, we should be getting clear roadmaps to action at the point of announcement.

Investors cannot afford to ignore a GP set that has largely outperformed industry benchmarks, even during a pandemic.

'Many millennia of bias' make it vital that PE firms actively promote candidates from underrepresented groups, said Nic Humphries.

The sector must follow in responsible investment's footsteps, says Jean-Philippe de Schrevel, founder and managing partner at impact investing platform Bamboo Capital Partners.

Negative headlines are causing some LPs to review their relationships with Vista Equity Partners and Apollo Global Management. This has implications for the secondaries market.

The private equity industry must decide how its long-established fiduciary duty fits with a crisis like this.

Environmental stakeholders are accustomed to thinking about natural benefits such as pollination as a ‘service’ – investors will need to do the same to grasp the natural capital opportunity.