Snehal Shah

Impact shop Blue Earth is moving towards ‘operational independence’ from Partners Group, but the young firm will seek to replicate one of its forebear’s key attributes.

Apollo, New York State Common Retirement Fund and other LPs and GPs discuss what makes good ESG data and the direction of travel for reporting.

Neuberger Berman and Hamilton Lane explain their impact funds’ investment strategies.

The Portland-based firm is investing $1bn in vertical farms, raised from investors including San Francisco and El Paso public pension funds and the Development Bank of Japan.

The £22bn pension is meeting its 5% local impact target with low-return venture investments and affordable buy-to-rent homes.

The European Investment Bank, Allianz France and the Wortmann Family Office are among the VC fund’s investors.

Connecticut State Treasurer Shawn Wooden says European regulatory constraints around diversity data present a challenge when it comes to deploying capital in the region, as New Private Markets investigates a ‘clerical error’ relating to a prominent GP.

Virescent Ventures – 70% owned by CEFC executives – now manages CEFC’s A$200m venture allocation and is fundraising another A$200m.

Verdane has backed an electric vehicle charging services company that ‘is not strategic for the really large corporate actors in this space to own’.

Canada’s largest pension has set a net zero by 2050 target – and will support its assets to decarbonise and rely on a whole-economy transition to carbon neutrality to achieve this, CPP’s chief sustainability officer Deborah Orida tells New Private Markets.