LINKING SUSTAINABILITY TO FUND FINANCE
ESG-linked sub-lines start to flower
Subscription credit facilities linked to ESG have piqued the interest of many GPs in the past year. Could these lines be right for you?
BY THE NUMBERS
79% of institutional investors have signed up to at least one ESG framework, say MSCI survey data. For those that have, which have they chosen?
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BUILD BACK BETTER
Build back better
The world's leading private markets managers and investors on what needs to be done to ensure a sustainable future for the investment model and...
OPINION
Temasek and LeapFrog hint at the future
Sophisticated LPs have been aligning themselves with sector-specialist GPs in recent years, and this pair's $500m partnership is a milestone deal.
Should sub lines be on the front line of ‘doing good’?
Given ESG-linked facilities are generating ‘a huge amount of interest’, we discuss whether they are the best way to incentivise change.
When it comes to climate change, please, don’t spare us the details
As another investor alliance is created, we should be getting clear roadmaps to action at the point of announcement.
THE REGULATORY IMPERATIVE
Get ready for sustainable finance disclosures
The new EU rules will require fund managers to disclose how sustainability risks are integrated into decisions and their likely impact on returns.
THEY SAID IT
“To meet the growing demand for impact investments, we believe investors must broaden the pipeline of opportunities and deploy capital at a greater scale.”
Lisa Hall, impact chair at Apollo, describes the need to stretch impact investing to mature businesses.
DEEP DIVE
Measuring impact: The state of play
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.
Is private real estate short-sighted on climate risk?
With property costs mounting in many of the world’s environmentally vulnerable markets, climate change is increasingly becoming an issue that the industry is being called to address now.
Shining a light on borrower behaviour
As private debt funds hone their focus on ESG, the big challenge is to find effective ways to influence the management of the underlying asset.
The pipe dream: ESG data in ‘real time’
The technology and expertise exist to communicate non-financial KPIs to LPs with regularity, but don’t expect it to happen any time soon.
Climate: What investors want
Investors, especially pension schemes with young beneficiaries, are starting to ask more of their managers when it comes to climate strategy.
NET ZERO
TPG: Private equity can finance new opportunities to tackle the climate...
Institutional investors can create positive environmental impact at scale with broader climate investment vehicles, writes Mike Stone, co-managing partner of TPG Growth and chief investment officer of The Rise Fund.
