Toby Mitchenall
Toby Mitchenall is the Senior Editor, ESG and Sustainability, at PEI Media. He is responsible for New Private Markets, a dedicated intelligence source on impact investing, sustainability and ESG in private markets, and is based in PEI’s London office. Toby was previously a consultant advising private equity firms on marketing and public relations.
Scope 4 emissions and carbon-adjusted earnings were some of the cutting edge ideas on the menu at this week’s Responsible Investment Forum: Europe.
In this five-minute film, we hear from CalPERS, AP4 and the European Investment Fund about the lack of standardised ESG data in private markets, how this has held sustainability efforts back and why the future is starting to look brighter.
It’s a private fund innovation that could be a force for good, and one that some investors may struggle with.
A demand that the $206bn state pension consider only ‘pecuniary’ factors when investing does little to change its sizeable private markets programme.
All-male teams are particularly prevalent in Denmark and the Netherlands, representing 65% and 68% respectively.
The pioneering environmental investor has raised more than twice as much for its latest private equity fund as for Fund III. It could have raised a lot more, says founder Nino Tronchetti Provera.
Highlights from KKR's 2021 sustainability report, including: thoughts from its sustainability advisory council; its three 'Global Ambitions'; and the credit team's coming framework for sustainability-linked loans.
With so much recent track record unrealised, investors must focus on cash-on-cash, says Ivan Vercoutère, co-founder of LGT Capital Partners.
The Carlyle co-founder invests in ‘a lot of funds’ these days; here is a lightning guide to his due diligence process.
The influential Singaporean investor has built deep relationships with two impact GPs and made fund commitments to others; next stop is direct investment.