Investors

APG, StepStone, CPP Investments and Big Society Capital set the stage for the PERE ESG and Impact Forum with insights into regulation, data gathering and rising social discontent.

Katarina Staaf, managing director of AP6 – which invests exclusively in private equity and reported 49% returns last year – has a strategy of ‘transforming industries and business models’ across its portfolio.

The influential Singaporean investor has built deep relationships with two impact GPs and made fund commitments to others; next stop is direct investment.

At the previous investment committee meeting, the board voted to make the commitment, despite accusations the firm had misled the pension on diversity efforts.

State treasurer Riley Moore has written to six financial institutions to warn them: stop boycotting fossil fuel investments or you won't do business with us.

Investors’ views over the importance of DE&I issues and whether they ultimately affect fund commitments are as varied as the LP community itself.

Four charts show LPs’ ESG priorities and portfolio exclusions, from an LP survey by Coller Capital.

The UK’s Environment Agency Pension Fund is backing Lombard Odier’s climate debt fund as CIO Graham Cook says that transition financing 'is largely going to come from debt'.

Diversity has become a flashpoint for board members of many LPs, who believe they can steer managers into paying more than lip service to the topic.

GenZero, Temasek’s latest decarbonization strategy, far outsizes Temasek’s landmark impact investing partnerships with BlackRock, Brookfield and Leapfrog.