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    Over Half of Private Capital Fund Investors Now Expect Daily ESG Fund Updates

    2022-06-29

    Private Equity Wire: Intertrust Group’s most recent report, The future private capital CFO: Unleashing potential in the ESG era, found that more than 40% of private capital investors are looking for live updates on portfolio performance, while around 55% will be looking for either live or daily updates on ESG performance – 10% higher than anticipated by CFOs.

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    Investment Managers Still Enthusiastic About ESG

    2022-06-27

    ETF Trends: Growth stock weakness is hampering many environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies, including exchange traded funds, but in a positive sign for this investing style, some professional market participants remain constructive on the long-term prospects.

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    Riverside Names First Sustainability Officer

    2022-06-27

    Funds Europe: The Riverside Company has appointed Dörte Höppner as its first chief sustainability officer. In the newly created role, Höppner will be tasked with overseeing the private investment firm’s global ESG initiatives.

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    European ESG Assets to Reach €9 Trillion by 2025

    2022-06-27

    Funds Europe: European-domiciled ESG assets are poised to reach a value of between €7.4 trillion and €9 trillion by 2025, according to research by PwC Luxembourg.

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    50% of Advisers Now Offering ESG Advice

    2022-06-24

    Financial Standard: This is a key finding of new research from Australian Ethical and Investment Trends and shows a significant increase from 2016 when just one in five advisers operated in the space.

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    Why Private Equity Can Lead on Sustainability

    2022-06-23

    Top 1000 Funds:new HBR paper, “Private Equity Should Take the Lead in Sustainability” by Robert Eccles, Vinay Shandal, David Young and Benedicte Montgomery argues how – and why – the private equity must lead on integrating sustainability.

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    Forty Two Percent of AUM Across Private Capital is Managed by Funds That Have an Active ESG Policy

    2022-06-23

    Private Equity Wire: Preqin, a specialist in alternative assets data, tools, and insights, has published its annual Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report – ESG in Alternatives 2022: The Transparency Tipping Point – which reveals that 42% of AUM across private capital currently, is managed in funds that employ an active ESG policy.

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    LPs Are Turning Down Alternatives Managers Over ESG Concerns

    2022-06-23

    Institutional Investor: A quarter of limited partners surveyed by Preqin said they have turned down an investment opportunity due to concerns over ESG standards, according to the research firm’s latest report on environmental, social, and governance investing, expected to be released. Another 39 percent of limited partners said they are prepared to do the same if necessary.

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    ESG Regulation is Advancing – but Regulators Are Out-of-step

    2022-06-22

    Private Equity Wire: Sustainable finance rules for fund managers are evolving quickly, but there is a risk of global divergence as regulators in Europe, US and UK move ahead with new plans. In a survey of the industry by Private Equity Wire, around eight out of 10 respondents expected ESG to be an area of greater regulatory focus, within a list of other priorities.

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    Top ESG Fund Manager Trounces Peers by Hoarding ‘Unloved’ Assets

    2022-06-22

    BNN Bloomberg: One of this year’s top-performing managers of so-called sustainable funds has relied on assets that aren’t normally associated with environmental, social and governance investing, in a strategy that’s ended up trouncing his peers.

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