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Impact and responsible investment guru James Gifford says that if investors want to make change happen, they need to allocate to private markets opportunities.

Market forces began pressuring institutional investors to reconsider exposure to the fossil fuel industry long before the Biden administration took office in January.

More funds are aligning carried interest to impact, Campbell Lutyens partner Paula Langton tells New Private Markets.

The listed firm raised its largest ever private fund in a year in which the global pandemic focused investors' ESG thinking, says private equity co-head Per Franzen.

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.

The giant Californian pension would ‘have a long debate’ with a manager that doesn’t care about sustainability.

The £57bn pension has an ambitious target to reach net zero by 2035. CEO Morten Nilsson urges investors in private markets to help by gathering more extensive carbon data.

A $5bn investment into a Montreal rail system epitomises ‘constructive’ capital, writes Marc-André Blanchard, executive vice-president and head of CDPQ Global.

Pressure is mounting on private markets managers to provide sustainable, repeatable returns, write Christy Fields, head of real estate portfolio solutions and John Haggerty, director of private market investments at Meketa Investment Group.

The investments will be sourced through the $283bn pension's private equity co-investment programme if approved as early as March.