Investors

With property costs mounting in many of the world’s environmentally vulnerable markets, climate change is increasingly becoming an issue that the industry is being called to address now.

Yasuyuki Tomita, who was promoted from DBJ Asset Management last year, will oversee the development of a growth equity platform targeting domestic SMEs.

Anna Foller, sustainability manager at the Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund, talks us through the fund’s response to climate change.

The Church of England's deputy director of ethics at its pension board, Stephen Barrie, insists that GPs should have the capacity to analyse, understand and act on ESG data.

Echoing the increasingly urgent public discussion around global warming and its impact, more investors are voicing their climate concerns, and goals, to their GPs.

The lower risk of blended finance structures could appeal to private equity investors seeking both impact and returns.

David Russell, head of responsible investment at the UK's biggest private pension, discusses how the private equity industry is reacting to climate change.

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec vice-president and chief stewardship investing officer Bertrand Millot discusses how the pension communicates its needs to external private equity managers.

As GRESB passes the 10-year mark, Lisa Fu puts the industry’s yardstick under the microscope

Ratings and evaluations are being used to help managers raise money and land favourable loan terms. But the systems used to measure ESG have failings that cannot be ignored.