Chris Edge, Chairman and Independent Director, ONE group solutions, says the third-party ManCo market is maturing as its benefits become recognised.
Co-founder & CEO of Allinfra, Dave Sandor, discusses why a robust, credible green bond market is so essential and how advanced technologies could support this.
Digital solutions and data management have become strategic advantages in private markets as limited partners favour sponsors that can facilitate timely access to financial data and portfolio information, says Christophe Ponticello of Gen II Fund Services.
Besides overstating their sustainability credentials, fund boards run a risk of under-reporting when funds have genuinely strong ESG substance, says Silke Bernard, a Linklaters funds partner.
The goal of the European Long-Term Investment Fund to provide much-needed funding for small and mid-cap private companies has yet to be met – but a redesign could change that, say Holly Gardner and Adrian Whelan of Brown Brothers Harriman.
The EU’s new corporate reporting directive should give fund managers and other investors the transparent sustainability information they have long desired – but they will be held to account for what they do with it, says Dr Matthew Bell, EY global climate change and sustainability services leader.
