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'70% of jobs may require a degree, but only 30% of the workforce has a degree', noted Marcus Felder, principal at Blackstone, on stage at NEXUS.

CFES 2 is a multi-strategy impact fund, NPM has learned – the latest in a handful of climate and impact funds with secondaries strategies.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Ken Pontarelli talked delegates to NEXUS 2024 through the group's decision-making process when launching sustainable strategies.

The giant New York pension plan is not of fan of funds with a portion of their carried interest linked to impact, its sustainable investment chief Andrew Siwo told a lively debate on impact at PEI Group's NEXUS 2024 event.

Even amid a political backlash against ESG, 'the zeitgeist of society' compels investors to worry about more than just the rate of return, says Carlyle's co-founder and co-chairman in a video interview at NEXUS 2024.

Impact investing, especially in emerging markets, is a new frontier for most investors; secondaries transactions will ease them in.

'You don't necessarily need the full, full picture to start decarbonising,' a sustainability consultant advises at PEI's Responsible Investment Forum: New York this week.

The initiative's applicability to both GP and portfolio companies means it is emerging as a 'gold standard' in private markets.

Blue Earth’s secondaries strategy – part of its soon-to-launch multi-strategy fund – has just acquired a portfolio of fund stakes from a UK development finance institution.

The ESG Data Convergence Initiative has now gathered 62,000 data points in a standardised format. Vinay Shandal and Ben Morley, partners at Boston Consulting Group, describe three takeaways from their conversations with private equity GPs about the results.