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A group including S&P Global and Hamilton Lane has backed the launch of an 'open architecture' platform to share ESG data.

With a growing number of GPs looking to launch impact initiatives, we analyse whether good intentions or clever marketing are driving the trend.

Tikehau is targeting over €5bn of climate-dedicated AUM by 2025 – of which it has raised about €1.5bn – and is linking its carry to impact.

Fiona Reynolds, the outgoing CEO of UNPRI, says the organisation has a challenge: balancing an inclusive 'big tent' approach with the need to combat greenwashing.

The Manchester-based private equity firm is investing its £100m first impact fund.

The weight of the institutions involved and the clarity of the approach suggest that the ESG Data Convergence Project could herald the standardisation of ESG data in private equity.

Pioneering fund managers are making the ultimate GP prize – carried interest – contingent on impact or ESG metrics. In part one of this deep dive, we ask who is doing it and what their motivations are.

A 12-minute interview with real estate journalist Kyle Campbell on the single-family rental home market: a magnet for both institutional capital and negative media coverage.

Frustration or bemusement aside, the pioneers of the impact scene should not be put out by the new arrivals.

Are new-fangled margin ratchets the best way to motivate good ESG behaviour among issuers? Some panellists at Private Debt Investor's Virtual Forum 2021 had their doubts.