ESG

Private equity firms place value on ESG, even outside the political limelight, and that suggests sustainable investing will live on.

The politicisation of ESG will not be a talking point beyond the next US presidential election, predicts the prominent academic, speaking at the London offices of PEI Group.

Tips and strategies to win other stakeholders' attention and persuade management teams to address ESG are shared by sustainability professionals.

From reducing pesticides to increasing renewable energy usage, Cibus Capital has implemented an array of ESG improvement measures since it acquired The Summer Berry Company in 2019.

AFM publishes guidelines on sustainability claims, describing the use of SFDR classifications in product promotion as ‘undesirable’.

Matthias Hansch will take charge of the firm's value creation plans, while Alison Prout has joined the ESG team.

Some data requests seem immaterial or are too resource-intensive for fund managers to collect.

ESG is ‘part of diligence for almost every fund’, and GP diversity almost always comes up in LP discussions, the placement agent says.

Data convergence and DE&I were also on the minds of the panellists at an event in London focusing on ESG in venture capital.

EDCI participation, sustainability skills and portfolio-level value creation plans are top-of-mind for asset owners and investment consultants at PEI’s Responsible Investment Forum in San Francisco.