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The US pension’s lead PE director told conference delegates that unstandardised reporting holds back ESG as a tool for risk assessment.

The Responsible Investment Forum is underway in New York and panellists wrestle with new challenges alongside some familiar problems.

Find out who won awards for impact investing, ESG and sustainability, voted on by readers of Private Debt Investor, PERE, Private Equity International and Infrastructure Investor.

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.

Finding strategies that actually address climate change is not easy, says the Swedish pension's head of alternative investments in this Q&A, so 'sometimes a new setting is needed'.

The LP’s retiring CIO said the committees will be created by next quarter ‘so that the work continues’ on ESG initiatives.

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

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.

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.