SCALING IMPACT
Impact Investor Forum: There’s a ‘great convergence’ around metrics
The International Finance Corporation’s Neil Gregory says investors are coalescing around two similar ways of measuring impact.
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DEEP DIVE
Who makes the rules for ESG disclosure?
We asked 10 private markets managers whether and how they are using various ESG reporting frameworks. The answers? It’s complicated.
Does it pay to be good?
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 hunt for ESG talent
Where do private capital firms find senior sustainabilty recruits? And once they have found them, where should they put them?
The ultimate exercise in labour relations
KKR’s industrials team routinely gives equity to a portfolio company’s entire workforce. Is this the future of private equity investment?
Who gets to wear the impact label?
There is not yet consensus about what constitutes a true impact strategy; debate about definitions could get in the way of much needed progress.
OPINION
Vista’s diversity head on the firm’s approach to ‘conscious inclusion’
Khalida Ali, director of diversity and inclusion at Vista Equity Partners, goes into detail on how the tech investor is trying to reinforce an inclusive and welcoming culture.
EU’s indecision on ‘green gas’ is benefiting nobody
In trying to deliver investor certainty and climate relief with its Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, the EU has come up with a solution which may well do the opposite.
EU Taxonomy must put science before political expediency
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.
THE PUSH FOR DIVERSITY
In brief: Legal vet joins Blackstone to lead DE&I
Devin Glenn, formerly at law firm Skadden Arps, reports to global head of human resources Paige Ross.
BUILD BACK BETTER
Build back better
How will private markets be part of the post-pandemic rebuilding? Leading investors suggest ways to ensure the sustainability of the planet and the private...
CLIMATE
In brief: TPG’s $5bn ‘wide aperture’ climate strategy
How the private markets firm's impact unit would deploy a $5bn climate fund.
FILTER BY TOPIC
In brief: Ares seeds $30m foundation
The foundation will receive 'up to 5% of the annualised net performance income' from certain Ares funds as well as employee donations.
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