Private equity firms often attribute the boardroom gender gap to the make-up of their own deal teams, but LPs and GPs are using the data to ask whether greater diversity could add value, says BCG's Ben Morley.
In the latest Sustainability in Private Markets report, BCG and EDCI find that both more sponsor-backed companies are aligned with a net-zero pathway in 2025 and that more do not have a net-zero programme and no plans to set one.
The hires follow the promotion of Jen Braswell to global head of impact last month.
Just Climate unveiled its growth equity strategy, which will primarily focus on Brazil, in May 2025.
Stรฉphane Villemain will oversee ESG across the firm's private markets business.
Alix Rice joins the affordable housing investment firm after almost 18 years at real estate investment and management company Jamestown.
Industry participants are trying to come up with standardised legal clauses to help enhance corporate governance in AI investments.
The firm's fundraising success reflects ongoing consolidation in sustainability private markets.
LGT Capital Partners' annual ESG report gives a useful snapshot of where its private equity managers have reached on climate, biodiversity and social issues.
A lack of leverage is making it difficult for private markets investors embed AI governance effectively, according to panellists at the Frame conference in London earlier this month.