ESG

Guernsey’s Green Fund Rules offer a framework to combine financial return with environmental benefit, writes Dominic Wheatley, chief executive of Guernsey Finance.

Simon Witney and Patricia Volhard at Debevoise & Plimpton discuss the European Commission's proposals to make asset managers disclose these risks.

Heavyweight Australian investors back a new workplace diversity initiative as LPs admit the issue is a factor in their investment decision-making.

QIC Global Infrastructure co-founder Matina Papathanasiou argues diversity goes beyond gender, but meaningful representation in line roles is key.

With the rise of the anti-sexual-harassment movement, industry stakeholders need to think differently as they mitigate reputational risk.

Tax is not on the ESG agenda; maybe it should be

Basic steps can help prevent harassment and the damage it does to women’s careers. It’s time firms in real estate and other asset classes took them.

CIO Angela Miller-May stressed it wasn’t the clincher in its recent decision to allocate $50m with IFM Investors and Ullico Investment Advisors.

Private real estate’s finance and operating officers face myriad challenges, but many have a common solution, the audience heard at sister publication PERE's CFO/COO Forum.

To tackle underrepresentation of female professionals, the private equity real estate industry needs to first address certain misconceptions, speakers at a PERE conference said.