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Patrizia AG, a global manager of real estate and infrastructure assets, has held a first close on €50 million ($52.8 million) for a new fund called Sustainable Futures Ventures.

Colorful Capital, a newly-launched LGBTQ+-focused fund, aims to tackle venture capital’s ‘implicit bias’ – which sees less than 1% of VC funding go to LGBTQ+ founders.

LGT Capital Partners has just raised $550m for its debut impact programme. Managing partner Tycho Sneyers talks investor appetite, the regulatory environment and the budding secondaries market.

Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change recommends managers implement the TCFD and set nearer-term targets on the way to net zero by 2050.

APG, StepStone, CPP Investments and Big Society Capital set the stage for the PERE ESG and Impact Forum with insights into regulation, data gathering and rising social discontent.

Katarina Staaf, managing director of AP6 – which invests exclusively in private equity and reported 49% returns last year – has a strategy of ‘transforming industries and business models’ across its portfolio.

The influential Singaporean investor has built deep relationships with two impact GPs and made fund commitments to others; next stop is direct investment.

Manulife, the world's biggest timberland investment manager, is planning a carbon credit-generation strategy. Managing director Eric Cooperström is feeling the tailwinds from the influx of net-zero commitments.

The UK’s Environment Agency Pension Fund is backing Lombard Odier’s climate debt fund as CIO Graham Cook says that transition financing 'is largely going to come from debt'.

The SEC’s proposals to require a kind of 'truth in advertising' around ESG funds are a good first step, writes Venture Capital Journal editor Lawrence Aragon.