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Investments in water and wastewater management are what institutional investors that responded to a Bright Harbor Advisors survey said they are most interested in when seeking exposure to sustainable alternative assets. Bright Harbor, a New York-based placement agent, found that 81 percent of LP respondents have already added a sustainability, impact or ESG (environment, social, […]
The risks of sharing a blind pool where the sovereign wealth fund plays such an outsized role are being thrown into sharp relief.
Despite an often clear alignment of interests, infrastructure investment hasn’t always lived up to sustainability expectations. Four industry experts tell us how this is changing.
Head of infrastructure Peter Hofbauer talks through Hermes’ approach to sustainability, the benefits it provides investors and why the asset class requires a different mindset.
GRESB Infrastructure director Rick Walters tells Amy Carroll how measuring ESG performance can help guide the way to a fully sustainable infrastructure industry.
GRESB is the leading global environmental, social and governance benchmark for real assets. Working in collaboration with the industry, the organisation defines the standard for sustainability performance in real assets, providing standardised and validated ESG data to 75 institutional investors, representing more than $18 trillion in institutional capital. The results from the 2018 GRESB Infrastructure […]
Valeria Rosati, senior partner, walks us through Vantage Infrastructure’s approach to ESG and the main challenges to implementation.
Graham Matthews, chief executive of Whitehelm Capital, and Thibault Richon, investment director at SWEN Capital Partners, tell us why infrastructure and sustainability are natural bedfellows and why ESG has an important place in the sustainability tool kit.
Tim van den Brande, director at KGAL Capital, outlines the pivotal role managers play in helping asset owners achieve their sustainability objectives.
A lack of reporting standardisation is now widely seen as obstacle number one.