measurement & reporting

BlueMark, which assesses and verifies impact investing processes, has now named nine investors as 'top quartile' when it comes to aligning with the Operating Principles for Impact Management.

The group went 'back to the drawing board' after a public consultation revealed a 'mixed response' to the initial guidance, says senior investment specialist Misa Andriamihaja.

Linking financial incentives to impact performance is increasingly seen as best practice in impact. Jack Isaacs and Ellen Maginnis from verification firm BlueMark, having assessed 84 investors' approaches, describe the various ways of doing it.

The listed private markets firm will gather data on areas such as CO2 emissions, employee turnover and data maturity across its PE and infrastructure portfolios.

The Global Impact Investing Network’s agriculture performance benchmark could influence LPs’ thinking outside their narrow allocations to 'impact'.

Independent verification providers such as BlueMark 'are vital in assessing and assuring that investors are delivering on their impact claims and commitments', says Temasek Trust's Dawn Chan.

Initiatives such as EDCI are prompting firms to measure board-level diversity – but mid-market companies' boards are too small for this data to be statistically significant, argues one firm's head of ESG.

The fund of funds manager is working with PwC to ensure its non-EU investments align with the greenest EU fund classification under SFDR.

Sometimes LPs don’t bother following up on their questionnaires, ‘which is great’, said one investor relations professional.

As LPs become increasingly demanding of GPs with respect to ESG data requests, the question of cost attribution is getting more acute.