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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.

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.