Toby Mitchenall
Following a request for proposal in April, the pension has made four commitments totalling $135m to minority-owned firms.
Aviva Investors is seeing greater demand for social housing investments that can 'create positive social outcomes whilst also capturing financial returns'.
Investors of different stripes are signing up to services designed to structure and streamline the collection and management of ESG data.
Stockholm-based Worldfavor is used by private equity firms and corporates to gather ESG data from portfolios and supply chains.
This is part of a wider effort by the pension to quantify the impact of its 'targeted sustainability investments'.
A new head of impact and two investment associates are sought to work on the firm's Inspire Impact platform.
Christine Weydig is the former director of sustainability at the Port Authority of NY & NJ.
Measures in wide-ranging US economic reform should have three positive effects TPG's climate investing activity, says co-founder Jim Coulter.
The VC and growth firm has established 10 sustainability goals, inspired by the UN SDGs, and in December published its first annual report on its progress against these.
Economic fears may take some heat out of the sizzling ESG recruitment market... but not so much in private markets.