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The asset class has historically lagged others but is catching up fast, says Allison Spector, director of sustainability at Nuveen.
Three key environmental, social and governance trends in the private debt space.
As sustainability moves up the agenda, private debt funds can help build a collective approach to ESG issues from institutional investor level through to portfolio practices, says Sonia Rocher, managing director in BlackRock’s European private credit group.
The founding partner of Total Impact Capital says that for those looking for impact, the region's market is strong and largely untapped.
How can we be sure impact investment claims are accurate? We go inside the race to develop better measurement frameworks.
For debt funds with more limited access to managers, leveraging influence at the due diligence stage is critical to responsible investing, says Coralie De Maesschalck, head of portfolio and ESG at Kartesia.
Putting ESG at the heart of decision-making leads to better credit selection and higher returns, argue Theresa Shutt, CIO, and Paul Colatrella, managing director of infrastructure debt, at Fiera Private Debt.
As private debt funds hone their focus on ESG, the big challenge is to find effective ways to influence the management of the underlying asset.
Fund managers and investors are working together to ensure that responsible investment is moving up the private debt agenda, say Bridgepoint Credit’s Alex Hökfelt and Cathy Wang.
The head of private markets at Nest says off-market lenders have a lot of power to ensure their borrowers act responsibly.