ESG

Tania Carnegie, leader of the Impact Venture practice at KPMG, on the power of positive impact measurement to drive opportunity.

As private sources of capital warm to the idea of impact investing, there is much they can learn from DFIs, say Clarisa De Franco and Yasemin Saltuk Lamy of the UK’s CDC Group, which has been deploying capital for positive outcomes for over 70 years

As the popularity of impact investing grows exponentially, maintaining standards is key, says Nuveen’s Rekha Unnithan.

Climate concerns have historically been an afterthought for North American capital, but that is changing, as evidenced by the $240bn pension's new sustainability plan.

LPs told an event in London that some among them envision a world in which sustainability goals are linked to carried interest.

Standards regimes can encourage box-ticking at the expense of more detailed analysis, according to the secondaries firm's ESG & sustainability head.

PEI caught up with Fi Dinh, who led ING's first ESG-linked revolving credit facility, to discuss fund terms, interest rate calculations and sustainability targets.

The bank provided a subscription credit facility for Singapore's Quadria Capital that pegs its interest rate to fund-level ESG performance.

All three winners significantly revamped the company leadership in different ways.

A reduction in energy used and emissions and waste produced went hand in hand with increased sales and customer satisfaction for ELIX Polymers.