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The UK insurer’s asset management arm is also raising a climate transition fund and has set a 2040 net-zero target for its £47bn real assets portfolio.

A rapidly changing ESG landscape faces market participants, says ELFA’s Sabrina Fox.

A small group of experts and investors are sounding the alarm about how avoiding taxes creates portfolio risks.

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 factsheets contain sector-specific guidance for the most important areas of ESG disclosure for the autos, building materials and services sectors.

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

The market for loans tied to sustainability targets is growing fast, but measurement and greenwashing concerns remain.

With ESG performance being linked to the cost of debt, the attainment of carry and personal remuneration plans, how do you set robust KPIs and targets? George Weavil and Carys Clipper, lawyers from Travers Smith, give their opinion.

The report found significant variation in key performance indicators and the ambition level of sustainability performance targets.

'The integration of ESG factors into leveraged finance investing is continuing at pace, evolving to be much closer to that of public equity markets,' said ELFA chief executive officer Sabrina Fox.