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.
After an era of exuberance, expansion and ‘rockstar’ roles, sustainability in private markets is being more closely tethered to value creation.
For borrowers and their sponsors, SLLs are a direct way of ensuring ESG integration is a lever for financial value.
Featherlight Capital counts ex-Wafra, La Caisse and Power Sustainable investors among its investment team.
The reinforcement of fundamental objectives – returns and impact – was a reassuring collective experience for attendees of the Impact Investor Global Summit.
The empathy of the CEO is a decisive factor in whether an employee ownership programme has an impact, says KKR's Pete Stavros at NEXUS 2025.
MSCI research points climate investors to the small – yet mighty – private markets universe.
Inequality is starting to be recognised more broadly by investors as an emerging area of systemic risk; it should be on institutional investors' radars, according to the large Canadian investors' latest research paper.
Sustainable private markets are maturing, according to allocators at November's Impact & Transition Investor Summit in New York.
Analysis of the third year of EDCI data suggests that even amid tougher economic times, private equity-backed companies create new jobs faster than public companies.
The market forces that have propelled climate funds to the top of LP wish lists look set to continue.