Toby Mitchenall
Bregal Sphere, the recently launched impact arm of Bregal Investments, wants to be at the 'tip of the spear' in showing what high-quality carbon credits look like, says the new co-head of its nature-based solutions strategy.
Institutional investors are increasingly mindful of inequality as a systemic risk; the question is whether they are willing and able to do anything about it.
The cast of characters at this year's Impact Investor Global Summit tells a positive story about how institutional investors are thinking about impact.
This is part of a wider effort by the pension to quantify the impact of its 'targeted sustainability investments'.
The firm has collaborated with Conservation International, a global non-profit, to form Akaria Natural Capital.
Across private markets different bodies and groups are striving to harmonize ESG data gathering and reporting: it is a worthy and devilishly difficult task.
The impact investor has previously raised a seed fund, a VC fund and created the LiveKindly Collective, a $1bn roll-up of brands in the alternative protein sector.
The private equity industry must decide how its long-established fiduciary duty fits with a crisis like this.
The shortcomings of available performance data are making public market equivalents a more attractive benchmark.
GPs may be reluctant to think about diversity in their own teams; at some point they will not have a choice.