Gas company Saudi Aramco has unveiled a $1.5bn fund focused on energy transition. It will be managed by Aramco Ventures, the company's venture capital arm.
With more than A$10bn of capital now committed, we caught up with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to find out how its approach has evolved in the past decade.
A gender-lens approach can boost business performance and enhance women’s economic empowerment in Africa, says Anne-Marie Lévesque of development finance institution FinDev Canada.
Proponents of private markets – and private equity in particular – have always praised the ownership model for its superior governance compared to publicly listed companies; it is time to prove it.
The WHO Foundation and German development bank DEG cite Africa’s underdeveloped private equity industry at AVCA’s London summit.
Border To Coast, a UK pension pool, is pursuing climate impact investments – such as Ardian-backed Hy24’s hydrogen fund – in lieu of a net zero pathway for its £10bn private funds portfolio.
The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority’s impact portfolio outperformed the general portfolio in the last financial year, but ‘we weren’t searching for impact’, director George Graham said at GIIN’s investor forum.
In this five-minute film, we hear from CalPERS, AP4 and the European Investment Fund about the lack of standardised ESG data in private markets, how this has held sustainability efforts back and why the future is starting to look brighter.
The listed private markets investor has begun thinking about how to include neurodiversity as part of the industry’s wider DE&I reporting practices.
The Australian institutional investor made the 'difficult decision' to focus its resources on other climate-related initiatives.