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Brunel Pension Partnership, one of the UK’s Local Government Pension Scheme pools, has cornerstoned Oxford's debut real estate impact fund, which is targeting £400m.

The consumer-focused private equity firm has previously made investments with a sustainability-slant, such as in alternative protein company Planted.

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.

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. 

Invest Europe has launched its ESG reporting guidelines as the industry calls for more focus on data analysis and materiality.

As managers shift to focus on near-term challenges, sustainability and social impact goals are at risk of being deprioritised.

A number of private markets firms have signed up to the principles-based initiative, including most recently Inflexion.

Employee ownership programmes, which seek to build wealth among company workers, are gaining traction in the private equity industry. Are investors losing out on upside, or benefiting from increased value creation?

Speaking at SuperReturn Asia in Singapore last month, senior executives from PSP and Hamilton Lane said investors may consider allocating to climate strategies from a dedicated pool of capital.