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Where do private capital firms find senior sustainabilty recruits? And once they have found them, where should they put them?

Are there important aspects of investing responsibly that we are just too afraid to discuss? The Predistribution Initiative wants us to discuss the elephant in the sustainable private markets room.

PG Impact Investments, the impact firm incubated by private markets giant Partners Group, has launched a fund that will seek ‘market-rate returns’ from climate-related investments.

The US Impact Investing Alliance launches a proposal calling on the Biden-Harris administration to create a more inclusive economy.

The European firm looks set to join its large buyout peers in establishing a fund line that will seek both financial returns and a positive societal or environmental impact.

Mid-market investor EV Private Equity is tying compensation for Fund VI to the achievement of impact objectives.

An annual survey by Aberdeen Standard Investments of its private equity managers reports a backslide in US firms’ ratings.

Investors have focused more on ESG over the past year, will prioritise social issues as a result of the pandemic and use a wide range of frameworks to establish their goals and measure their performance in sustainable investing.

KKR’s industrials team routinely gives equity to a portfolio company’s entire workforce. Is this the future of private equity investment?

There is not yet consensus about what constitutes a true impact strategy; debate about definitions could get in the way of much needed progress.