ESG update
26 October 2020
Comment: The ‘new office politics’
IC Intelligence chief strategist Dr Desné Masie, says the worst isn't over for real estate funds
24 September 2020
Comment: Culture drives results
Riverside COO Dörte Höppner believes culture is intrinsic to performance, and now is the time to talk about it
17 September 2020
Profile: Debojit Mukherjee, Agilitas Private Equity
The chief operating officer discusses what attracted him to his role, how the firm measures and tracks ESG and why their Sustainable Value Creation report is so important
14 September 2020
ESG: From checkbox to value creation
Private equity firms have been dutifully integrating ESG reporting, but few use it as a genuine driver of value
10 September 2020
A true alternative
From alternative law firm to publicly listed full-suite asset management consultancy, MJ Hudson has had an outstanding decade
28 August 2020
LISTEN: MUFG’s Mike Dickey on ESG reporting
Alice Murray talks to Mike Dickey, head of product at MUFG Investor Services, about the data flow of ESG information between GP and LP
27 August 2020
Comment: Compliance and ESG - Overhead or value-driver?
The crisis will likely bring about more stringent financial and environmental regulations; cutting compliance and ESG resources could bear greater costs, warns Robin Lööf and Edoardo Troina at Debevoise & Plimpton
13 August 2020
Comment: ESG regulation is coming
Jan Gruter of Addleshaw Goddard deciphers what new regulatory frameworks could mean for private equity
10 August 2020
Private Equity Service Provider Awards: Shortlist Announced
Announcing the finalists for the 2020 Private Equity Service Provider Awards
10 August 2020
Comment: PE & ESG… It’s time to look at your technology providers
George Ralph, managing director of RFA believes service providers are next in line for communicating their ESG credentials
3 August 2020
The Impact Investing Operating Principles: the power of independence
Audits and regulatory practices are vital for tracking cash, but where are the equivalents for environmental and social impacts?
23 July 2020
Steadying the ship
Can a solid operating platform provide much needed certainty in an increasingly uncertain world?
21 July 2020
Investindustrial secures ESG-linked sub line
Investindustrial’s Fund VII has secured a €600m ESG-linked subscription credit facility
11 June 2020
EQT secures largest ESG-linked sub line
EQT's Therése Lennehag: "With this ESG-linked financing facility, we actively contribute to increasing the availability of high-quality ESG data, critical for the financial markets to be able to build a resilient and regenerative economy"
14 May 2020
The Private Equity Editor’s Podcast 4
Through our combined expertise of PE investments to operations - and everything in between - this snappy podcast neatly distils the need-to-know market developments of the last week.
6 May 2020
Comment: ESG in C-19
Dörte Höppner, COO of Riverside Europe, says ESG has new meaning and acts as one of PE's most vital tools in weathering the storm
28 April 2020
Proposed ESG disclosures open for consultation
This is the next step in increasing clarity around ESG reporting, and gives some idea of what might be expected of firms going forward
2 April 2020
Tech is key to solving work-life imbalance
An eVestment study into private capital work-life balance points to dangerous stress levels and higher risk of burnout
23 March 2020
Levelling the playing field
Highlights of recent developments by various bodies to regulate and standardise ESG
6 December 2019
Sustainable finance taxonomy nears agreement
Unified classification aims to provide absolute measure for sustainable economic activity
7 September 2018
5 minutes with… The Private Equity Stakeholder Project
New project aims to connect workers with private equity firms
3 September 2018
Retail is PE’s major ESG trouble hotspot
Consumer-facing companies key source of reputational risk due to poor supply chains