Sustainable Lending

Peter Cashion, managing director for sustainable investments at the Californian state employees’ pension plan, is encouraging the real assets and private debt teams to engage with more emerging and diverse fund managers.

For borrowers and their sponsors, SLLs are a direct way of ensuring ESG integration is a lever for financial value.

Up-and-coming talent from across PEI Group’s under-40 lists share the sustainability and impact trends that are gaining momentum in alternatives.

As the all-important 2030 deadline to limit global warming looms, are private markets on track to help meet the world’s critical climate needs?

As anti-ESG rhetoric in the US intensifies, private markets players appear to be dialling down their messaging, but not their actions.

After an era of exuberance, expansion and ‘rockstar’ roles, sustainability in private markets is being more closely tethered to value creation.

The fund will follow Flexam’s established strategy of securing loans to SMEs against mission-critical assets.

The CIO and investment strategy head exit the $36bn AUM life insurer after Brookfield’s recent move to acquire it, Private Debt Investor has learned.

It may be less publicly discussed in this political climate, but the subject has not disappeared as a key part of risk management.

Sustainability should not be treated as a sub-segment of private debt, but as something that can fundamentally transform the entire asset class, maintains Johnny Brom, chief investment officer and founder, SAIL Investments.