ESG Journeys, Walking the Talk from End to End

Hear the differing perspectives of a portfolio company, fund manager and solutions provider as they each describe what ESG means to them and the specific challenges they face. Our panel will discuss the questions that these market participants are receiving from their own clients before learning how they are attempting to provide appropriate solutions. 

In this episode of Between The Lines, Darren Mooney, managing director at IQ-EQ, dives deep into IQ-EQ’s proprietary compliance tool, gVue. 

gVue is a comprehensive solution for managing and monitoring a business's compliance activities. Darren talks with Steve Piaker and Tanu Suneja of Ten Coves Capital, Jenny Herman of Additive Advisory and IQ-EQ’s Melsa McGarey, director, and JP Gonzalez, Chief Commercial Officer, The Americas. 

During this show, you will hear about how gVue helps businesses from different perspectives, and how it can streamline compliance processes and procedures.

In this episode of our 'Women in Alternative Assets' podcast series, IQ-EQ’s Anne Marie Costet is joined by Sandrine Henton, Managing Director of EG Capital, who is looking forward to exploiting a new strategy which invests in young people and women to deliver measurable financial returns and impact.  

During the session, Sandrine shares her views about recognising the risk perception of bias when investing in an emerging market such as Africa, and the potential for generating alpha by investing in frontier markets. She also discusses several biases in investment decision-making in the industry. 

IQ-EQ is delighted to share a recording of the first of our online masterclasses for first-time fund managers, developed in association with IQ-EQ Launchpad. This session, led by IQ-EQ training manager Carmel McCartney, examines the challenges facing first-time fund managers and how to overcome them.

Throughout the session, Carmel discusses problems that may arise during the set-up process, calculating cost-time efficiency, and preparing for the unknowns. She also provides an overview of four success factors that IQ-EQ believes are critical to launching a maiden fund successfully.

In this first episode of our 'Women in Alternative Assets' podcast series, IQ-EQ’s Rachel Aldridge is joined by Shefali Roy, an award-winning angel investor who invests globally in start-ups within the Fintech, Creator Economy, FemTech and Future of Work sectors.

During the session, Shefali shares her views on the industry's gender imbalance across regions as well as key barriers that women face in allocating investment capital, and gives advice to women raising their first fund.

IQ-EQ is delighted to share this podcast, which is a recording of our Fund Finance – The Latest Market Trends webinar that was broadcast on 1 December 2021. 

There has been substantial growth in the fund finance market over recent years, with more and more funds seeking subscription line and NAV financing, and we anticipate that 2022 will be a year of further growth and innovation.

To further investigate what we see as trends for 2022, we were delighted to be able to broadcast an in-depth webinar on the topic of “Fund Finance – Latest Market Developments”.

You will hear from our panel of fund finance experts, who were asked for their views on the upcoming market trends, by moderator, Emmanuelle Dotezac, Director, Funds, IQ-EQ UK

Participating in this expert panel were:

• Augustin Duhamel, Managing Partner, Investment Committee member and co-founder of 17Capital in 2008

• Camille Defaye, Chief Financial Officer, Latour Capital

• David Checoury, President, Stanhope Capital SAS

• Sarah Lobbardi, Founding Partner, Avardi Partners

• Gregory Beauchamps, Head of Fund Structuring, Tikehau Investment Management

IQ-EQ is delighted to share this podcast, which is a recording of the third and hybrid edition of our flagship event, IQ-EQ Crossroads, on the topic “The rise and rise of private capital, which we hosted in London, on 16 November 2021. 

At this year’s event, we sought investors’ views on the private capital landscape, their areas of interest and sectors of focus, as well as what is most exciting and most challenging about investing in the private capital industry today. Nomura was our co-sponsor on this event.

We were very excited to have Diana Noble, Non-Executive Director, Bank of England, as our headline speaker at this event. She is also the founder of Kirkos Partners, an advisor to leaders of Private Equity firms.

Diana’s background is in private equity, venture capital and international development. She was a partner at Schroder Ventures (now Permira) for 12 years and founded e-Ventures and Reed Elsevier Ventures. Diana was the CEO of CDC, the UK’s £5 billion development finance institution, from 2011 to 2017. She joined CDC after five years with the Clinton Foundation’s Health Access Initiative where she oversaw the programme to give children equal access to HIV/ AIDS care.

Steve Sokic, Group Head of Private Wealth moderated our discussion panel which included  Mark J. McDonald, Global Head of Private Equity, DWS; Winston Chesterfield, Founder, Barton Consulting, Guy Hayward-Cole, Managing Director, Head of Advisory EMEA, Nomura and Hugh Stacey, Executive Director, Investor Solutions.

IQ-EQ is pleased to share the fifth podcast in our CFO e-Lab series, and is a recording of our webinar, which took place on 7 December 2021. During this session, we sought to discuss the impact of technology and CFO Support services on the role of the private funds CFO. 

In this episode, introduced and moderated by J.P. Harrop, Group Funds Advisor, IQ-EQ, we were joined by the following expert panelists: 

• Sanjay G. Tolani, Head of Private Markets, Europe, FIS, London
• Boris Onefater, Chairman & Global Head of Outsourced Services, Constellation Advisers LLC, part of IQ-EQ, New York
• Razzak Akbar, Chief Financial Officer, Freshstream, London

Following the presentations, we hosted a Q&A session with questions from the audience, which rounded off the session.

IQ-EQ’s Hugh Stacey defines greenwashing and shares his insight into how to recognise it. He also outlines how regulators and investors are taking action and what asset managers can do to avoid the greenwashing trap.

Hugh Stacey is the Executive Director of IQ-EQ Investor Solutions, which is a division dedicated to servicing the private markets portfolios of institutional and private investors with the latest technological platforms. Investor Solutions is powered by IQ-EQ Cosmos, our proprietary investor reporting tool that delivers real-time data and analysis across multiple investments, portfolios, funds and asset classes. It includes dedicated ESG dashboards enabling reporting against key ESG criteria and global sustainability benchmarks. 

Private debt is an asset class that has fared strongly against the backdrop of the current global crisis. On 15 April 2021, IQ-EQ hosted an exciting virtual debate on the topic of ‘Debt is dead. Long live debt!’ between experts Richard Vague and Gabriel de Alba, moderated by IQ-EQ’s Group Head of Funds, Justin Partington.

Richard Vague is the Chairman of the Governor’s Woods Foundation and author of The Next Economic Disaster. He has previously been co-founder, chairman and CEO of Energy Plus and the co-founder and CEO of First USA and Juniper Financial. 

Gabriel de Alba is an international investor who has recapitalised, restructured and built businesses across the US, Europe, Canada and emerging markets.

The debate addressed six core statements relating to private debt:

1.     Private debt seems to thrive in crisis only. Agree or disagree?

2.     Private debt is a safe investment in a changing environment. Agree or disagree?

3.     Is this the right time for debt, and how best to execute a debt strategy?

4.     ESG will ensure further transparency in private debt as per other asset classes. For or against?

5.     Covenant-lite loans are often referred to as the scourge of corporate lending. Agree or disagree?

6.     Debt is dead. Long live debt! Agree or disagree?

If you’d prefer to read a recap of the key debate highlights, please click here.