The New Private Markets Podcast
Episodes
Why APG is 'clamping down' on ESG data, while ramping up impact
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
APG Asset Management is one of the world's most influential investors in private markets, and a leader in the integration of sustainability and impact...
BCI: Why ESG is 'one of the last frontiers' in value creation
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For years, ESG was viewed more as an exercise in disclosure than a means to value creation. But sustainability is increasingly going beyond ticking bo...
What's it like raising climate capital today?
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Impact investing reached an inflection point in 2025 as uncertainty gripped private markets, abetted by political turbulence, fundraising difficulties...
How LPs should manage a private markets impact programme amid slower DPI
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How does a distribution drought affect LPs and how should they react? In this episode, we speak to Tom Mitchell, partner in the foundation and endowme...
How auto-loans and farm credit can be regenerative
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Regenerative economic models create value and expand markets, rather than undermine them, says Kat Taylor. Taylor is an investor and philanthropist, a...
How the sustainability-linked loan market is evolving
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Having shot to prominence in the early part of this decade, have sustainability-linked loans (or SLLs) become an enduring part of the private credit l...
Optimism abounds among US sustainable investors
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two major talking points at this year's New Private Markets Investor Summit: North America were the transformative force of AI and the pressing need f...
What the UN pension fund likes to hear from GPs
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Kenza Himmi, the head of impact investing and partnerships at the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, attends a pitch meeting with a fund ma...
Does more money mean more impact?
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the field of impact investing growing in a healthy way, or is it being co-opted by firms for whom positive impact is secondary to asset gathering? ...
Understanding impact's financial performance with Schroders
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Financial performance is the key issue that will determine the viability of impact investing at scale in the long term. Given the relative youth of mo...
APG and Colesco on the rise of impact credit
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to impact, private credit is often considered to be lagging behind other private markets asset classes. There are, however, signs that t...
Brookfield's Adomait on 'a fantastic time to invest'
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Learn more about the Impact Investor Global Summit in London here Don't be put off by political noise. Reduced competition and growing demand for ener...
Summit preview special: What goes into a good impact strategy?
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you create an impact strategy that passes muster with LPs? The question is on the agenda for both our upcoming Impact Investor Global Summit in...
Why Altérra's CEO is 'very, very confident' about its $250bn mobilisation goal
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the many big unanswered questions in climate finance is how to channel capital to the Global South, where it is arguably needed the most. The g...
Capricorn's bet on Closed Loop and the circular economy
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Capricorn Investment Group is an unusual organisation. Born from the private wealth of billionaire and former eBay president Jeff Skoll, it now operat...
Inequality as a systemic risk
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The risks that climate change and biodiversity loss pose to portfolios have become more understood in recent years. However, inequality, as well as so...
Making employee ownership the core of an investment strategy
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to initiatives such as Ownership Works, a growing number of private markets firms have begun to integrate employee ownership schemes. However, ...
Building a private markets firm for the 'missing middle'
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The transition to a low- or no-carbon economy requires more than just money. It requires a combination of skills and capital that has not traditionall...
Temasek’s journey into impact investing and beyond
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Singapore's Temasek is a large investor in both dollar terms and in terms of its influence in private markets. As of March 2024, it had S$389 billion ...
Lessons on employee ownership with KKR's Pete Stavros
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of employee ownership in private equity – whereby all workers at a portfolio company benefit from a successful exit – has caught on. A...
Navigating the sustainability 'hype cycle' with Carlyle's Megan Starr
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sustainability and ESG have faced – and continue to face – a political backlash. At one end of the spectrum, the view of ESG is that it has gone t...
The New Private Markets Podcast trailer
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The New Private Markets Podcast focuses exclusively on sustainability issues in private equity, venture capital, private debt, real estate and infrast...