measurement & reporting

The private markets industry is moving towards a future in which external impact has a dollar value like any other financial line item, said panellists at the Impact Investor Global Summit in London.

Panellists discussed the feasibility of constructing a portfolio entirely focused on impact at Impact Investor Global Summit last week.

Having now developed decarbonisation guidance for all private markets asset classes, IIGCC will turn its attention to climate solutions, according to private markets lead Misa Andriamihaja.

The ESG data platform will use the injection to create products for private companies and expand into new geographies.

Apollo's Ooton sees LPs 'galvanise around' EDCI metrics, freeing up GP resources to focus on ESG improvements rather than questionnaires. And EDCI data shows early indications that PE-owned companies perform better on sustainability KPIs than public ones.

Article 9’s reporting obligations are ‘too burdensome’ for some private fund managers, say Stafford and Anthos.

Impact Frontiers is hosting a session on reporting norms.

Private debt, historically seen as lagging on ESG, is making rapid progress according to experts at Private Debt Investor's Europe Summit this week.

Obtaining non-financial information ranked bottom among data challenges faced by LPs in a survey conducted by State Street.

While debate flares up about whether the Science Based Targets initiative should allow greater use of offsets, the real question is whether Scope 3 decarbonisation is possible without them.