Private Equity
Carbon Equity, "the Moonfare alternative for impact investing," is seeing growing demand from affluent individuals who want access to climate venture capital funds.
5 min read · 27 February 2023
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.
10 min read · 01 February 2023
Peter Cashion will lead CalPERS’ stewardship and net zero implementation and ‘develop new investment strategies’.
2 min read · 17 January 2023
LACERA, MassPRIM and Northwestern Mutual are among those that have set aside capital to invest in firms owned by women or minorities.
7 min read · 07 November 2022
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.
2 min read · 03 November 2022
The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority’s impact portfolio outperformed the general portfolio in the last financial year, but ‘we weren’t searching for impact,' director George Graham said at GIIN’s investor forum.
2 min read · 18 October 2022
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.
2 min read · 27 September 2022
Energy Impact Partners – the world’s 13th biggest impact fund manager – has closed a European fund on €390m with commitments from APG, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Microsoft.
3 min read · 13 September 2022
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’.
2 min read · 15 August 2022
Pollination is targeting $6bn for a series of funds focused on natural carbon sequestration in a joint venture with HSBC Asset Management.
2 min read · 20 June 2022
