All Episodes

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: UK AIFMD Review – the FCA misses its shot

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Private capital faces more tax scrutiny

Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: Defence needs capital – and clarity

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: The disruptor is disrupted

Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: What can (private markets) investors do about climate change?

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Governing the huge potential of AI

Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: Not less, just different: The hidden opportunity in the EU's regulatory reset

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: A testing moment for private markets regulators

Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: Reporting requirements still shifting

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Accountability drives culture

Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: The UK's cautious roll out

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Unlocking private markets

Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: Six fixes for SFDR 2.0

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: More turbulence in the year ahead

Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: Sustainability reforms lack a convincing theory of change

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: The Commission's SFDR proposal fails to deliver clarity

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: The UK's budget

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Fund labels in Europe

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Are pooled investment funds on their way out?

Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: Human rights due diligence and defence investments

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Private markets and policy goals

Sustainability Insights: Why less might be more?

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Transatlantic tax policy and the art of the deal

UK adoption of sustainability reporting standards and mandatory transition plans

Alternative Insights: The impact of UK tax policy

Sustainability Insights: UK takes another step towards mandatory sustainability disclosures

Alternative Insights: Secondary market liquidity before exit: old wine in new bottles?

Sustainability Insights: What will SFDR 2.0 look like?

Alternative Insights: Rule changes for European private fund managers

Sustainability Insights: Sustainability reporting season

Sustainability Exchange: Episode 3: What should a European firm say to its US investors about ESG?

Alternative Insights: The UK regulator's approach to valuation

Sustainability Insights: Investing in Europe's defence

Alternative Insights: Fixing the European plumbing

Sustainability Insights: Will Trump 2.0 kill off the Brussels effect?

Alternative Insights: Taxing incentives in private markets

Sustainability Insights: All aboard the unstoppable omnibus

Alternative Insights: Insights '25

Sustainability Insights: What's in store for 2025?

Sustainability Insights: EU sustainability regulation in 2025

Alternative Insights: The UK government's boost to private markets

Sustainability Insights: What does COP29 tell us about the UK's green growth ambitions?

Alternative Insights: Tax rises for UK alternative asset managers

Sustainability Insights: The role of government in transition finance

Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 5: Does responsible investment have a meaningful impact on real world problems?

Alternative Insights: The EU AI Act

Sustainability Insights: The impact of the Draghi report on ESG regulation

Alternative Insights: NAV lending to private equity funds

Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 4: Diandra Soobiah, Director of Responsible Investment at Nest, the National Employment Savings Trust

Alternative Insights: Politics, Policy, and Private Capital

Alternative Insights: Alternative Insights 2024

Sustainability Insights: UK sustainability policies of the future

Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 3: Ellen De Kreij, Lead advisor, Impact and Sustainability, Apax Partners: what impact means to Apax Partners

Alternative Insights: The diverging paths of private funds regulation

Sustainability Insights: Fund names and sustainability

Alternative Insights: Financial regulation and AI

Sustainability Insights: The UK's anti-greenwashing rule

Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 2: From commodities trading to bees and trees … Kristen Weldon's journey to natural capital in private markets

Alternative Insights: UK pensions and private capital funds

Sustainability Insights: Employment law and private markets

Alternative Insights: Private markets and foreign subsidies

Sustainability Insights: Supply chain due diligence in Europe

Alternative Insights: Subscription line financing

Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 1: Cornelia Gomez

Sustainability Insights: Getting governance right

Alternative Insights: The year ahead

Alternative Insights: Retailisation: Will 2024 be the year of the ELTIF?

Sustainability Insights: Labels for UK funds, but limited impact for private capital?

Alternative Insights: Tax cuts for UK business – and a welcome focus on private capital

Sustainability Insights: The European Commission's review of SFDR

Alternative Insights: Tax hot topics: an interview with Tosin Adeyeri and Elena Rowlands

Sustainability Insights: Can the UK's FCA move the needle on diversity?

Alternative Insights: The impact and regulation of private credit funds

Sustainability Insights: ESG and antitrust

Alternative Insights: The impact of the EU's new rules on foreign subsidies

Sustainability Insights: International Sustainability Disclosure Standards

Alternative Insights: ILPA guidance on GP-leds

Sustainability Insights: PRI guidance on human rights

Alternative Insights: Retailisation: the evolving European regulatory environment

Sustainability Insights: The FCA's discussion paper on sustainability

Alternative Insights: UK competition law

Sustainability Insights: A busy month for European sustainability regulation

Alternative Insights: EU foreign subsidy rules and private equity deals

Alternative Insights: Retailisation

Alternative Insights: What does 2023 hold?

Sustainability Insights: The UK's labelling regime

Alternative Insights: UK red tape

Sustainability Insights: Greenwashing and the regulation of fund names in the EU

Alternative Insights: Changes to UK limited partnership law

Sustainability Insights: Sustainability labels in the UK

Alternative Insights: Policymakers, retail investors and private funds

Sustainability Insights: Tax and ESG in private markets

Alternative Insights: Carried interest and continuation funds

Sustainability Insights: Focusing on stakeholders

Alternative Insights: Changing the structure of financial regulation in the UK

Sustainability Insights: Labelling impact

Alternative Insights: The benefits of a well-structured continuation fund

Alternative Insights: Private wealth and private capital

Sustainability Insights: The regulatory focus on "greenwashing"

Alternative Insights: Gaining liquidity and retaining control

Sustainability Insights: Sustainability disclosure standards

Alternative Insights: Hedging interest rate risk

Sustainability Insights: The EU's sustainability challenge

Alternative Insights: UK government sets out next steps for funds regime

Sustainability Insights: European Commission proposal on mandatory due diligence

Alternative Insights: SEC proposals for private funds

Sustainability Insights: Making a Paris-aligned net zero commitment

Alternative Insights: Liquidity options for LPs

Sustainability Insights: Is 2022 the year to focus on nature?

Alternative Insights: Regulatory hosting under scrutiny in the UK

Alternative Insights: The gradual evolution of EU fund regulation

Sustainability Insights: The UK's new sustainability disclosure regime

Alternative Insights: The UK's Autumn 2021 Budget