Toby Mitchenall
'70% of jobs may require a degree, but only 30% of the workforce has a degree', noted Marcus Felder, principal at Blackstone, on stage at NEXUS.
The firm says it now has €5.3bn-worth of assets under management 'dedicated to impact'.
Anti-ESG legislation in various US states does little to derail sustainable investing, but discussions of ESG have become 'a little bit of a dance', says LP.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Ken Pontarelli talked delegates to NEXUS 2024 through the group's decision-making process when launching sustainable strategies.
The giant New York pension plan is not of fan of funds with a portion of their carried interest linked to impact, its sustainable investment chief Andrew Siwo told a lively debate on impact at PEI Group's NEXUS 2024 event.
Even amid a political backlash against ESG, 'the zeitgeist of society' compels investors to worry about more than just the rate of return, says Carlyle's co-founder and co-chairman in a video interview at NEXUS 2024.
Britt Harris, who has run multiple large pools of investment capital, discussed the energy transition on day one of NEXUS 2024.
Sustainability will no doubt be a recurring theme of NEXUS 2024, a private equity event attended by the biggest LPs and GPs in the ecosystem.
The service provider is currently used by firms including MiddleGround Capital, New Mountain Capital and Blue Wolf Capital.
The full year data for 2023 was dire, but early signals suggest this year's will be signficantly better.