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Key considerations when performing an ESG materiality assessment

With ESG now becoming a de facto feature of one’s risk management programme, it is becoming increasingly important for asset managers to materially assess their ESG capabilities. But how should they best approach such an exercise? What are the questions they should be asking within their organisation, either to put

Alpha Real Capital joins UN Global Compact

Alpha Real Capital (Alpha), a specialist manager of secure income real assets, has joined the UN Global Compact, a programme whereby companies like Alpha can align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the area of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and take action in support

ClimateTrade closes EUR7m pre-Series A

ClimateTrade, a blockchain-enabled climate marketplace, has raised EUR7 million in a pre-Series A European funding round and is raising another EUR13 million in a US-focused round set to close on its reincorporation in the next five months. In total, the company is targeting EUR20 million of funding for international expansion.

Invest Europe to set ESG reporting standards for European PE and VC industry

Invest Europe, an association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital, and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors, is to develop a coherent standard for how private equity and venture capital firms should report on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues – bringing harmonisation and transparency to essential ESG reporting

Helios Secures Africa’s first ESG-linked capital call facility for Fund IV

Africa-focused private investment firm Helios Investment Partners (Helios) has secured an ESG-linked capital call facility for Helios Investors IV, LP (Helios IV). Rand Merchant Bank and Standard Chartered Bank acted as Arrangers and Sustainability Coordinators. The interest rate of the Helios IV capital call facility is pegged to ESG performance

Vala Capital to only invest in companies committed to sustainability

Vala Capital is renaming its British Ventures EIS to Better Ventures as it seeks to support start-ups becoming more sustainable – irrespective of the industry they operate in, or products they sell. Sustainability is a core focus at Vala Capital and it believes that the climate crisis cannot be resolved

Investcorp releases 2021 Responsible Business Report

Investcorp has released its 2021 Responsible Business Report, which includes the firm’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (EGS) highlights for 2021 and specific initiatives the Investcorp implemented to meet its goals, as well as some case studies illustrating areas where the firm has demonstrated its commitment to responsibility as a core

Circulate Capital invests in “Prevented Ocean Plastic Southeast Asia”

Circulate Capital, a Singapore-based investment management firm that finances innovations, companies, and infrastructure to prevent the flow of plastic waste into the world’s oceans, is investing in Prevented Ocean Plastic Southeast Asia via the Circulate Capital Ocean Fund (CCOF). This plastic waste collection and recycling company is pioneering and testing

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