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Largest-ever energy transition private credit fund hits its hard-cap and surpasses $6bn target.
Managers are working hard to get their houses in order as LPs seek out more granular information and signs of progress on diversity.
An anti-ESG backlash in some US states has created challenges for private markets managers but there are few signs of ESG moving down the priority list elsewhere.
Progress has been made but more still needs to be done as GPs strive to make their sustainability efforts meaningful.
Private debt is moving into a new era of impact lending and sustainability-linked loans
Jennifer Powers and Reiner Boehning are investing $2.5bn for ECP’s climate credit strategy – which they sourced independently in the year since departing GIP
Structural flexibility means a private credit manager is best placed to put a bespoke solution together, says Michael Curtis, head of private credit strategies at Fidelity International.
New opportunities are emerging as the asset class embraces innovative financing solutions, says Cécile Mayer-Lévi, head of private debt at Tikehau Capital.
The private debt market has changed beyond all recognition over the last decade, especially in Europe, say Ares Management’s Mitchell Goldstein and Blair Jacobson.
As complexity increases in the asset class, so do the demands of investors and regulators, placing new pressures on fund managers, say Alter Domus’s Greg Myers and AEA’s Andrew Kyung.