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UK Private Capital’s Senior Policy Manager for Pensions, Karen Hurst, provides her insights on the passage of the Pensions Schemes Bill, following a long period of ‘ping-pong’ between the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Karen discusses compromises made to the mandation power, and positive changes to scale requirements and a value for money framework that UK Private Capital has long called for.

Laura Callaghan, Head of Advisory, EMEA at Novata outlines the importance of using the sustainability data firms collect to quantify impact and demonstrate value across their portfolios. Laura highlights the need to integrate sustainability insights into value creation plans and outlines the pitfalls firms often encounter when attempting to communicate their value.

Harry Raikes, Head of UK Venture Investments at Schroders discusses the building momentum for UK pension reform over the last decade. Harry describes how the UK’s push to channel pension capital into high-growth companies is gaining traction, with early allocations to venture capital signalling a shift from policy ambition to practical implementation.

James Thompson, Managing Director, Sustainability and ESG Advisory at CFGI discusses the difficulties in demonstrating the value in Sustainability and provides insight into the underlying reasons for this challenge. 

Leandros Kalisperas, Chief Investment Officer at the British Business Bank, sets out how the Bank is evolving its investment approach to support the next phase of growth in the UK venture and growth ecosystem.

Amber Heuvelmans, Associate Director, ESG Advisory at ACA Group provides practical guidance for how Private Market Managers can explore how artificial intelligence can support ESG analysis, reporting, and portfolio oversight.

On 4 March, ICG hosted and sponsored an International Women’s Day reception in their London office, as part of UK Private Capital’s Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) series. Suzi Gillespie, UK Private Capital’s Head of Research, reflects on the conversation and how private capital businesses can build inclusive workplaces.

UK Private Capital’s Head of Legal & Regulatory Policy, Tom Taylor and Research Manager, Ewa Skornas share their insights on the hot topic of evergreen funds. Insights taken from a recent LP-GP forum discussion featuring a panel of Luke Finch, Hg; Katie Lee, Franklin Templeton; Emily Pollock, KKR; and Shaha Miah, Pantheon; as well as wider conversations across the market.

UK Private Capital brought together industry leaders to discuss the barriers to scaling capital flows into impact investing. The discussion, emphasised the importance of building a shared language between GPs and LPs in order to increase understanding required to fuel growth of this important part of the private capital ecosystem.

Chris Elphick provides his reflections on VC fundraising data in 2025 and the decline in the UK total overall. He highlights that this is a narrow snapshot, drawing attention to the strengths of the ecosystem including how the UK continues to lead Europe in total VC investment, the strong track record of exits and returns, and the UK’s strengths in important and emerging sectors including AI, health tech and life sciences.

The BVCA’s Sustainability Policy Executive, Breeze Haywood, reflects on the outcome of the most recent COP30 negotiations. Breeze highlights the UK’s role in advancing global nature finance and how private capital is well-positioned to help develop innovative finance mechanisms to further mobilise capital at scale.

Belasko’s Head of Funds, Nick McHardy, looks at the practical steps involved in launching and operating a private capital fund. This piece reflects on foundational aspects such as fundraising, documentation, fund structuring as well as service provider selection – giving a useful guide on operational aspects and fund lifecycle management.

BVCA Senior Venture Capital Executive, Baderin Tejuoso, reflects on Slush 2025, one of the most influential conferences in the European venture capital calendar.

BVCA Senior Policy Manager, Nick Chipperfield reflects on the House of Lords inquiry into the growth of private markets - a subject that has attracted wide interest in the media and across the financial sector. Nick covers evidence provided by the BVCA and member firms as well as recent contributions made by the Bank of England and City Minister Lucy Rigby KC MP.

Breeze Haywood, Sustainability Policy Executive, shares insights from UK Private Capital's recent Black History Month Reception. At the event, panel discussions explored existing gaps in the industry with regards to access to finance and career development opportunities. Panellists discussed how embedding DE&I into business and government policies can support innovation and economic growth.

Clean Growth Fund shares why B Corp Certification matters and offers practical insights from their own certification journey.

Sam Monger, Head of Place-Based Impact Investing at the Good Economy, outlines key findings of a new report ‘Scaling-Up Local Investing for Place-Based Impact: A Strategic Framework and Guidance for LGPS’, which highlights how underinvestment in key industrial sectors has held back the UK’s regions.

LSE's Dr Juanita Gonzalez Uribe and Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra argue that the venture capital due diligence process itself has significant upsides for the businesses applying for support. The articles outlines how their research found that startups selected for due diligence do not just grow faster; they also adopt new digital tools and website technologies before raising external funding.

Csanad Csorba, Associate Director – Corporate Tax & Private Equity and Alastair Dixon, Partner at RSM UK at RSM UK explore what CFO’s should consider throughout the lifecycle of a PE investment including post deal actions, approaches to growth and expansion through to exit preparation.