impact investing

PG Impact Investments, the impact firm incubated by private markets giant Partners Group, has launched a fund that will seek ‘market-rate returns’ from climate-related investments.

The US Impact Investing Alliance launches a proposal calling on the Biden-Harris administration to create a more inclusive economy.

The European firm looks set to join its large buyout peers in establishing a fund line that will seek both financial returns and a positive societal or environmental impact.

Mid-market investor EV Private Equity is tying compensation for Fund VI to the achievement of impact objectives.

LPs will soon have trillions to invest in impact but an LP-GP disconnect is hampering progress, writes Jeremy Smith, head of impact at placement agent Rede Partners.

Private credit investors are well positioned to engage with management teams, but more work needs to be done to standardise metrics, writes Will Nicoll, CIO of M&G’s private and alternative assets team.

The shift to sustainability in private markets deserves its own dedicated information source.

Professors Jessica Jeffers and Anne Tucker found no evidence of ‘widespread greenwashing’ when they studied 207 contracts struck by impact investors; here’s how impact was written into the deals.

Lessons from the impact investing world – including how to foster impact at exit – can help translate good intentions to positive outcomes, writes Cecilia Chao, Managing Director of Bain Capital Double Impact.

By monitoring and reporting impact in a consistent and transparent manner, managers can help channel capital to the most impactful investments, writes Connor Teskey, managing partner and head of Brookfield’s renewable power group.