Snehal Shah

NZAOA will release a private equity net zero target setting protocol for LPs and provide guidance on pushing GPs to decarbonise, New Private Markets understands.

A total of 28% of GPs have set board diversity targets for portfolio companies, ILPA reported in 2021.

Neuberger Berman’s emerging managers strategy sees more ethnically diverse male-led funds than women-led funds, managing director Patricia Miller Zollar says at IPEM 2022 in Cannes.

Apollo – after hinting at private debt and equity climate funds earlier this year – has registered a climate fund in Luxembourg.

MassPRIM, Northwestern Mutual and LACERA are among investors that have set aside capital to invest in firms owned by women or minorities and newly established funds. Our list includes allocation sizes, investment criteria and a point of contact.

OurCrowd, a venture capital fund manager for individual and institutional investors, has launched an impact fund promoting equitable healthcare access in partnership with the WHO Foundation.

The UK and North America lag mainland Europe in divestment plans, fund services provider Auxadi’s survey of private equity managers shows.

Impact manager adds ‘upstream’ private equity stakes and developing markets to its fifth infrastructure fund to maintain performance as market returns trend lower.

AXA IM’s Bertrand Loubières is hesitant to set up an Article 9 fund, describing a ‘conflict’ with equity sponsors to obtain emissions data.

French sustainability-themed fund manager has closed Territoires Innovants 3 at €150m, with 75% of the fund earmarked for PE and secondary fund investments.