Snehal Shah
As regulation and voluntary initiatives start to create alignment around ESG expectations in private equity, we explore how the Principles for Responsible Investment maintains its allure.
The investment consultant is seeking external capital for a secondaries fund, following consultants such as Hamilton Lane and StepStone in managing pooled private markets funds.
The firm sees more ethnically diverse male-led funds than women-led funds when looking at emerging managers, according to managing director Patricia Miller Zollar.
The commission has proposed a rule restricting side letters that grant certain LPs ‘preferential information and rights’. But for LACERA, side letters are ‘a crucial means for market innovation’.
LPs are being asked to 'let go of asset buckets' in a bid to make a meaningful impact on carbon emissions.
Universities Superannuation Scheme is the latest in a series of LPs to create separate impact and climate investing allocations across private markets.
Allianz and Golding are raising impact fund of funds – soon to be joined by Alpha – as the market is boosted by investor demand, climate mega-funds and regulatory momentum.
Private infrastructure investors discussed the ‘messy and imprecise’ but ‘noble’ and ongoing business of pursuing diversity.
Industry-wide ESG data standards are the key challenge facing sustainability in private equity markets, asset managers said at PEI's virtual conference last week.