ESG

GPs must be careful not to incur liability when addressing ESG issues in their portfolio companies.

The greater availability of data is allowing managers to incentivise ESG action in new ways.

If 2024 was a learning year, the next 12 months with see private markets move "ambition to action", according to panellists at Responsible Investment Forum Europe.

A quarter of institutional investors have made impact investments, data from bfinance shows.

ESG teams are increasingly able to demonstrate how their efforts drive growth in portfolio companies. It is a welcome development.

ESG and compliance are 'two separate goals' and should not be conflated, Railpen's Michael Marshall said on stage at a Responsible Investment Forum in London.

The guidance, which provides a common language for fund managers’ decarbonisation progress, will be a topic of discussion at PEI's Responsible Investment Forum in London this week.

More attention is being paid to the carbon emitted during an asset’s construction. But reporting issues are still holding back these efforts.

StepStone and Pantheon have found that GPs in Asia compare favourably with their US counterparts in many areas.

Fundraising by private debt firms for impact strategies appears to be picking up, even as ESG integration into mainstream strategies may be declining.