measurement & reporting

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 £57bn pension has an ambitious target to reach net zero by 2035. CEO Morten Nilsson urges investors in private markets to help by gathering more extensive carbon data.

The technology and expertise exist to communicate non-financial KPIs to LPs with regularity, but don’t expect it to happen any time soon.

Impact investment allows firms to demonstrate their environmental and social credentials, but are their claims accurate? We take a look at the race to develop better measurement frameworks.

Climate initiatives by GPs tend to be about sharing good practice rather than systemic assessments across the portfolios, says Stephen Barrie, the pension's deputy director of ethics and engagement.

GPs should drive the creation of consistent and comparable data disclosures and common standards in ESG, executives from Carlyle Group and Macquarie say.

The pandemic is an opportunity to return to a 'better normal', according to Yoshitaka Todoroki, who oversees PE and infra at the $1.5trn Japanese pension giant.

Women make up about one in four of senior investment professionals at Neuberger Berman, which employs 'concrete measures' on recruitment and retention.

LPs are increasingly using sustainability criteria as a factor in fund manager choice.