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Private equity firms are increasingly seeking ways to generate value through ESG across the investment lifecycle, say ERM’s Andrew Radcliff and Claudia Solaini.

GPs and LPs are stepping up their global ESG efforts to collect decision-useful data, say Anne Matusewicz and Jérémy Rasori at Reporting 21.

Managers will need to focus on delivering alpha as the private equity industry faces a more volatile market, say Ares’ Matt Cwiertnia and Scott Graves.

With investors placing more scrutiny on domiciling decisions, international finance centres must stay ahead of future trends or risk being left behind, say Elliot Refson and Philip Pirecki at Jersey Finance.

Investor requests for data and transparency are driving managers to ask for more assistance from service providers, say Apex Group’s Henk Pieter van Asselt and Georges Archibald.

The asset class should welcome more private individual investors, but products must be carefully tailored to their needs, say Neuberger Berman’s Peter von Lehe, Maura Reilly Kennedy and José Luis González Pastor.

A clear, well-executed strategy that focuses on customer needs can help portfolio companies come out of challenging environments stronger, say senior advisers to CD&R funds Sir Terry Leahy, Jim McNerney and David Taylor.

Investors are in the driving seat when it comes to GPs’ compliance with the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, say Debevoise & Plimpton’s Jin-Hyuk Jang and Patricia Volhard.

Increasingly seen as a solution to a range of GP funding needs and as an attractive source of returns, minority GP stake sales are on the rise, says Thomas Liaudet at Campbell Lutyens.

In the face of macroeconomic headwinds, investors are readjusting their private equity allocation strategies and eyeing co-investment and secondaries opportunities, says Tim Toska at Alter Domus.