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The worlds of industry and research collided in Oxford this week. It showed how the two can work together.
The New York City Comptroller's office views ESG as 'a really smart way to look at risk and value creation over time', Meier said at the Private Debt Investor New York Forum this week.
Diverging sustainability regimes present challenges for GPs, particularly when raising capital from both LPs in Europe and those in US ‘anti-ESG’ states, say Debevoise & Plimpton’s Ulysses Smith and Patricia Volhard.
Market practitioners and academics convened at the University of Oxford Sustainable Private Markets Conference on Monday.
Venture debt or corporate debt products are 'still very much needed', says Priscilla Schnepper of the European Investment Fund, who will discuss key developments at our PDI Germany Forum.
Eiffel Impact Debt II uses ESG levers to encourage sustainability improvements and is one of the largest-ever 'impact' debt funds; strategy head Antoine Maspétiol tells NPM how Eiffel navigated the ‘tough’ fundraising environment.
The fund administrator has recruited Tamara Close, founder of Close Group Consulting, to lead the service in North America.
Sukhvir Basran has joined law firm King & Spalding and has experience in sustainable finance.
Signing the Principles for Responsible Investment is 'a natural step for Verdane', a spokesperson for the firm tells NPM.
It won't just be ESG pioneers and natural capital specialists integrating biodiversity into their investment processes.