Investors

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.

Sampension’s head of ESG, Jacob Ehlerth Jørgensen, says ‘managers [of unlisted funds] must ensure their investments contribute to the green transition’.

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation and superannuation funds HESTA and Legal Super have invested in the Australia-focused growth equity vehicle.

USS has put private markets at the heart of its net-zero ambitions as it sets interim decarbonisation targets.

Managers of private debt funds are following the broadly syndicated market in their embrace of sustainability-linked loans. Credibility is on the line.