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Toby Mitchenall

Toby Mitchenall is the Senior Editor, ESG and Sustainability, at PEI Media. He is responsible for New Private Markets, a dedicated intelligence source on impact investing, sustainability and ESG in private markets, and is based in PEI’s London office. Toby was previously a consultant advising private equity firms on marketing and public relations.
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.
There is no lack of enthusiasm for impact investing, but a lack of definition risks undermining progress.
David Browne joins among a number of high-profile hires as the firm prepares to raise its first buyout fund in a decade.
The £60bn UK pension fund, whose allocations to timber and agri total nearly half a billion pounds, believes it can deliver 'superior after-cost risk-adjusted returns’ by going direct.
Annette Wilson has left the firm, which closed an oversubscribed €850m fund in June 2015.
The €310 million sale was unaffected by ‘Brexit’, but there will be a lasting slowdown in the wider M&A market, the firm said.
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