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Artificial intelligence could help turbocharge sustainability efforts in private markets by freeing up stretched ESG professionals to focus on strategic work.
A Hymans Robertson survey finds that PE had the lowest disclosure rates among private markets asset classes.
EDCI benchmarks can be used to shore up the ESG-linked loans market.
The impact manager scored 94.4 in the B Labs assessment.
The service provider is currently used by firms including MiddleGround Capital, New Mountain Capital and Blue Wolf Capital.
MSCI Private Company Data Connect uses the ESG IDP template to allow GPs to access companies' sustainability data.
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.
Permira is the latest GP to have its targets validated, as other firms work to integrate the initiative into their ESG strategies.
Allocating human resources to impact reporting could be a distraction for younger businesses, Tao Zhang, founder of cross-border venture consortium Dao Ventures, tells the Asian Financial Forum.
Just Capital and TISFD are among the organisations to receive funding from The Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing.