ESG

The firm raised $1.3bn for its 2018-vintage KKR Global Impact Fund, of which $300m was committed by New York State Common Retirement Fund.

Growth equity, secondaries, impact funds and long-hold vehicles cropped up in this year's list of the industry's biggest firms and the strategies they manage.

ESG is as important to growth-stage entrepreneurs as it is to potential buyers, says Gaia Capital Partners’ founding partner, Alice Albizzati.

Firms must incorporate ESG initiatives at both the corporate level and the investment level, or risk their reputations, says head of ESG Alison Fenton-Willock.

Private equity is failing to find its voice or properly engage with its detractors and the barrage of criticism won’t stop until it does.

We honour specialists across the globe in areas including healthcare, technology, impact and long-term.

The Institutional Limited Partners Association’s private equity diversity and inclusion roadmap is an open-source and online resource for LPs, GPs and industry practitioners.

Anna Foller, sustainability manager at the Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund, talks us through the fund’s response to climate change.

LPs are becoming more diversity-conscious, but a lack of gender balance in investment teams is rarely a deal-breaker.

The Church of England's deputy director of ethics at its pension board, Stephen Barrie, insists that GPs should have the capacity to analyse, understand and act on ESG data.