Toby Mitchenall
For borrowers and their sponsors, SLLs are a direct way of ensuring ESG integration is a lever for financial value.
After an era of exuberance, expansion and ‘rockstar’ roles, sustainability in private markets is being more closely tethered to value creation.
Sustainability-related initiatives are clearly focused on material, impactful, financial objectives, if comments at NEXUS 2025 were anything to go by.
The sustainability-focused lender has passed the €800m mark with its first fundraise, meaning it is already the largest vehicle of its kind.
Private credit and impact investing 'inherently go hand-in-hand', says Blue Earth's head of private credit Amy Wang.
Depending on which allocator you speak to, private credit presents either a promising way to invest with impact, or sustainability's 'humungous gap'.
Private debt, historically seen as lagging on ESG, is making rapid progress according to experts at Private Debt Investor's Europe Summit this week.
The longstanding environmental-focused private markets firm is 'pleased with the momentum' as it gathers capital for its first private credit fund.
In private markets climate investing, as with other impact investing themes, capital has gravitated primarily towards equity strategies. This is about to change.
An initiative backed by Apollo, Oak Hall Advisors and industry associations aims to harmonise ESG data collection, helping lenders make 'proportionate and reasonable disclosure requests'.