# How Institutional Investors Can Up Their Sustainability Game in Private Markets.

1 Opinion December 6, 2023 ImpactAlpha ![Tensie Whelan](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/Whelan%20Article.jpg?itok=XEKEqv-d)By Tensie Whelan and Jessica Weiss

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Institutional investors – aka, limited 0artners, or LPs – are increasingly integrating sustainability into their investment processes for private markets.

That requires managing a variety of issues including fiduciary duty, risk compliance and reporting, value creation strategies, and ongoing performance management – all while juggling different frameworks, performance metrics, and reporting metrics.

Our research into private equity’s sustainability performance finds that many private market investors focus on ESG and sustainability as a simple compliance or risk mitigation exercise, leaving value creation opportunities unfulfilled. (A smaller number have developed sophisticated approaches).

Read the full [*ImpactAlpha* article](https://impactalpha.com/how-institutional-investors-can-up-their-sustainability-game-in-private-markets-2/).
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*Tensie Whelan is a Clinical Professor of Business and Society and Director of the Center for Sustainable Business.*

## More from Tensie Whelan

- [Demystifying the ‘Say-Do’ Gap in Sustainable Product Purchases.](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/index%2ephp/experience-stern/faculty-research/opinion/demystifying-say-do-gap-sustainable-product-purchases)
- [How LPs Can Better Assess Sustainability-Linked Value Creation.](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/index%2ephp/experience-stern/faculty-research/opinion/how-lps-can-better-assess-sustainability-linked-value-creation)
- [Lessons From a Decade of Teaching Sustainability at B-School.](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/index%2ephp/experience-stern/faculty-research/lessons-decade-teaching-sustainability-b-school)
- [ESG Reporting Needs a Refresh. Here’s How to Fix It.](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/index%2ephp/experience-stern/faculty-research/esg-reporting-needs-refresh-heres-how-fix-it)
- [The B2B Opportunity in Corporate Sustainability.](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/index%2ephp/experience-stern/faculty-research/b2b-opportunity-corporate-sustainability)