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The organisation, launched at the G7 Summit in 2018, will provide independent verification of funds' gender quality efforts.
Women now account for 23 percent of investment professionals at European PE firms, according to research from Level 20.
Private markets need a 'collective awaking' on sustainability, according to University of Oxford professor Ludovic Phalippou.
The guidance is primarily designed for the pre-investment process, though its creators believe it can also be applied post-acquisition.
New group is seeking to do for inequality and social issues what TCFD and TNFD have done for climate and nature respectively.
Solina didn't hear from a GP for a year after questioning its ESG mindset, according to principal Benjamin Sabatier.
Sustainability-minded founders now want to know about the source of their funding, says Lightspeed Venture Partners' Paul Murphy.
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.