Last month at The Summit for ESG New York, Auquan CEO Chandini Jain joined Frank (Hewei) Li (Head of ESG Tech & Data Strategy, Apollo Global Management, Inc.) to discuss how to drive value creation from data for private investments.
The TSESG is a valuable global event series that brings together leading asset managers and investment professionals to discuss the risks and opportunities in sustainable investing, such as investment market trends, international regulations, and ESG brand challenges.
Chandini’s fireside chat focused on ESG integration and the importance of data in private investment strategies.
Some key topics addressed included:
- Unlocking access to private market data: Data providers can deliver clearer insights amid a noisy public data environment. Today, firms can access vast amounts of data from sources globally, and using AI, they have the ability to process that unstructured data, filtering out irrelevant information and extracting actionable insights efficiently.
- Leveraging impact metrics: The focus of private investment has shifted from only assessing returns to understanding the broader impact of investments. Using impact metrics, companies and investors seeking to measure and communicate the true environmental and social outcomes of their actions are in a better position to drive change.
- Achieving impact within private credit: Achieving an impact in private credit requires the integration of various ESG factors into lending models. This can be done by aligning with the firm’s unique sustainability goals and priorities, adhering to existing global standards and frameworks, and promoting more responsible investment practices at the institutional level.
- Challenges with ESG data in private markets: The discussion addressed the hurdles in acquiring and interpreting ESG data in private markets, such as accessing reliable data on private companies and standardizing insights from unstructured data.
- The future: How technology and AI tools can and are bridging the gap in data transparency and accuracy, changing the way private investment firms operate, and revolutionizing the knowledge workflows to make it more efficient in future.
Participation at TSESG New York 2024 had one goal: increasing awareness about the growing importance of data-driven ESG solutions in private markets. Finance professionals have more ways than ever to overcome the multi-faceted data challenges of impact investing and ESG in private markets.
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