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We asked 10 private markets managers whether and how they are using various ESG reporting frameworks. The answers? It’s complicated.

Khalida Ali, director of diversity and inclusion at Vista Equity Partners, goes into detail on how the tech investor is trying to reinforce an inclusive and welcoming culture.

European fund manager Capza will link loan costs and its own carried interest to ESG KPIs for its sixth private debt fund, says managing director Laurent Benard.

The firm has added the facility, which has an interest margin linked to 'measurable performance indicators', to a $3.5bn co-investment fund.

The move by Alison Fenton-Willock underscores the competition that exists for private equity professionals with environmental, social and governance experience.

In trying to deliver investor certainty and climate relief with its Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, the EU has come up with a solution which may well do the opposite.

New Private Markets spoke to a dozen experts in search of the ESG holy grail: an empirical link between sustainable investing and improved financial returns. Here's what we found.

The EU’s classification of what counts as sustainable could lose credibility at the first hurdle if it succumbs to political compromise, writes Reynir Indahl, managing partner of Summa Equity.

Government intervention will help mobilise private capital to address global challenges, says the firm’s public affairs and impact head.

Black leaders in institutional investment reflect on the social justice movement sparked by George Floyd’s killing, which has brought diversity in finance into the mainstream of ESG.