Alternative Asset Management & Sustainability Insights

By Travers Smith

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Episodes: 117

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A series of regular audio briefings for the alternative asset management industry.

Episode Date
Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: SFDR 2.0 – the Mist Clears What is agreed about SFDR 2.0, and where gaps remain
Sep 25, 2026
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: UK AIFMD Review – the FCA misses its shot
Sep 11, 2026
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Private capital faces more tax scrutiny
Jul 24, 2026
Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: Defence needs capital – and clarity
Jul 10, 2026
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: The disruptor is disrupted
Jun 26, 2026
Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: What can (private markets) investors do about climate change?
Jun 12, 2026
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Governing the huge potential of AI
May 29, 2026
Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: Not less, just different: The hidden opportunity in the EU's regulatory reset
May 15, 2026
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: A testing moment for private markets regulators
May 01, 2026
Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: Reporting requirements still shifting
Apr 17, 2026
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Accountability drives culture
Mar 20, 2026
Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: The UK's cautious roll out
Mar 06, 2026
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Unlocking private markets
Feb 20, 2026
Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: Six fixes for SFDR 2.0
Feb 06, 2026
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: More turbulence in the year ahead
Jan 23, 2026
Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: Sustainability reforms lack a convincing theory of change
Jan 09, 2026
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: The Commission's SFDR proposal fails to deliver clarity
Dec 12, 2025
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: The UK's budget
Nov 28, 2025
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Fund labels in Europe
Nov 14, 2025
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Are pooled investment funds on their way out?
Oct 31, 2025
Travers Smith's Sustainability Insights: Human rights due diligence and defence investments
Oct 17, 2025
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Private markets and policy goals
Oct 03, 2025
Sustainability Insights: Why less might be more?
Sep 19, 2025
Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Transatlantic tax policy and the art of the deal
Sep 05, 2025
UK adoption of sustainability reporting standards and mandatory transition plans
Jul 21, 2025
Alternative Insights: The impact of UK tax policy
Jul 18, 2025
Sustainability Insights: UK takes another step towards mandatory sustainability disclosures
Jul 04, 2025
Alternative Insights: Secondary market liquidity before exit: old wine in new bottles?
Jun 20, 2025
Sustainability Exchange: Episode 4 - Should my next fund be an Article 8 fund?
Jun 16, 2025
Sustainability Insights: What will SFDR 2.0 look like?
Jun 06, 2025
Alternative Insights: Rule changes for European private fund managers
May 23, 2025
Sustainability Insights: Sustainability reporting season
May 09, 2025
Sustainability Exchange: Episode 3: What should a European firm say to its US investors about ESG?
May 07, 2025
Alternative Insights: The UK regulator's approach to valuation
Apr 25, 2025
Sustainability Insights: Investing in Europe's defence
Apr 04, 2025
Sustainability Exchange - Episode 2: Should the carried interest in my next fund be linked to sustainability outcomes? - Talking. Sustainability.
Apr 01, 2025
Alternative Insights: Fixing the European plumbing
Mar 21, 2025
Sustainability Insights: Will Trump 2.0 kill off the Brussels effect?
Mar 07, 2025
Alternative Insights: Taxing incentives in private markets
Feb 21, 2025
Sustainability Exchange - Episode 1: Should the UK adopt a Green Taxonomy? - Talking. Sustainability.
Feb 19, 2025
Sustainability Insights: All aboard the unstoppable omnibus
Feb 07, 2025
Alternative Insights: Insights '25
Jan 24, 2025
Sustainability Insights: What's in store for 2025?
Jan 10, 2025
Sustainability Insights: EU sustainability regulation in 2025
Dec 13, 2024
Alternative Insights: The UK government's boost to private markets
Nov 29, 2024
Sustainability Insights: What does COP29 tell us about the UK's green growth ambitions?
Nov 15, 2024
Alternative Insights: Tax rises for UK alternative asset managers
Nov 01, 2024
Sustainability Insights: The role of government in transition finance
Oct 18, 2024
Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 5: Does responsible investment have a meaningful impact on real world problems?
Oct 17, 2024
Alternative Insights: The EU AI Act
Oct 04, 2024
Sustainability Insights: The impact of the Draghi report on ESG regulation
Sep 20, 2024
Alternative Insights: NAV lending to private equity funds
Sep 06, 2024
Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 4: Diandra Soobiah, Director of Responsible Investment at Nest, the National Employment Savings Trust
Aug 06, 2024
Alternative Insights: Politics, Policy, and Private Capital
Jul 26, 2024
Alternative Insights: Alternative Insights 2024
Jul 12, 2024
Sustainability Insights: UK sustainability policies of the future
Jun 28, 2024
Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 3: Ellen De Kreij, Lead advisor, Impact and Sustainability, Apax Partners: what impact means to Apax Partners
Jun 24, 2024
Alternative Insights: The diverging paths of private funds regulation
Jun 14, 2024
Sustainability Insights: Fund names and sustainability
May 31, 2024
Alternative Insights: Financial regulation and AI
May 17, 2024
Sustainability Insights: The UK's anti-greenwashing rule
May 03, 2024
Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 2: From commodities trading to bees and trees … Kristen Weldon's journey to natural capital in private markets
Apr 24, 2024
Alternative Insights: UK pensions and private capital funds
Apr 19, 2024
Sustainability Insights: Employment law and private markets
Apr 05, 2024
Alternative Insights: Private markets and foreign subsidies
Mar 22, 2024
Sustainability Insights: Supply chain due diligence in Europe
Mar 08, 2024
Alternative Insights: Subscription line financing
Feb 23, 2024
Sustainability Insights ... in conversation - Episode 1: Cornelia Gomez
Feb 20, 2024
Sustainability Insights: Getting governance right
Feb 09, 2024
Alternative Insights: The year ahead
Jan 26, 2024
Alternative Insights: Retailisation: Will 2024 be the year of the ELTIF?
Jan 12, 2024
Sustainability Insights: Labels for UK funds, but limited impact for private capital?
Dec 08, 2023
Alternative Insights: Tax cuts for UK business – and a welcome focus on private capital
Nov 23, 2023
Sustainability Insights: The European Commission's review of SFDR
Nov 10, 2023
Alternative Insights: Tax hot topics: an interview with Tosin Adeyeri and Elena Rowlands
Oct 27, 2023
Sustainability Insights: Can the UK's FCA move the needle on diversity?
Oct 13, 2023
Alternative Insights: The impact and regulation of private credit funds
Sep 29, 2023
Sustainability Insights: ESG and antitrust
Sep 15, 2023
Alternative Insights: The impact of the EU's new rules on foreign subsidies
Sep 01, 2023
Sustainability Insights: International Sustainability Disclosure Standards
Jul 21, 2023
Alternative Insights: ILPA guidance on GP-leds
Jul 07, 2023
Sustainability Insights: PRI guidance on human rights
Jun 23, 2023
Alternative Insights: Retailisation: the evolving European regulatory environment
Jun 09, 2023
Sustainability Insights: The FCA's discussion paper on sustainability
May 19, 2023
Alternative Insights: UK competition law
May 05, 2023
Sustainability Insights: A busy month for European sustainability regulation
Apr 21, 2023
Alternative Insights: EU foreign subsidy rules and private equity deals
Mar 24, 2023
Alternative Insights: Retailisation
Mar 10, 2023
Alternative Insights: What does 2023 hold?
Feb 10, 2023
Sustainability Insights: The UK's labelling regime
Jan 27, 2023
Alternative Insights: UK red tape
Jan 13, 2023
Sustainability Insights: Greenwashing and the regulation of fund names in the EU
Dec 16, 2022
Alternative Insights: Changes to UK limited partnership law
Dec 02, 2022
Sustainability Insights: Sustainability labels in the UK
Nov 18, 2022
Alternative Insights: Policymakers, retail investors and private funds
Nov 04, 2022
Sustainability Insights: Tax and ESG in private markets
Oct 21, 2022
Alternative Insights: Carried interest and continuation funds
Oct 07, 2022
Sustainability Insights: Focusing on stakeholders
Sep 23, 2022
Alternative Insights: Changing the structure of financial regulation in the UK
Sep 12, 2022
Sustainability Insights: Labelling impact
Jul 22, 2022
Alternative Insights: The benefits of a well-structured continuation fund
Jul 08, 2022
Alternative Insights: Private wealth and private capital
Jun 24, 2022
Sustainability Insights: The regulatory focus on "greenwashing"
Jun 10, 2022
Alternative Insights: Gaining liquidity and retaining control
May 20, 2022
Sustainability Insights: Sustainability disclosure standards
May 06, 2022
Alternative Insights: Hedging interest rate risk
Apr 22, 2022
Sustainability Insights: The EU's sustainability challenge
Apr 08, 2022
Alternative Insights: UK government sets out next steps for funds regime
Mar 25, 2022
Sustainability Insights: European Commission proposal on mandatory due diligence
Mar 11, 2022
Alternative Insights: SEC proposals for private funds
Feb 25, 2022
Sustainability Insights: Making a Paris-aligned net zero commitment
Feb 11, 2022
Alternative Insights: Liquidity options for LPs
Jan 28, 2022
Sustainability Insights: Is 2022 the year to focus on nature?
Jan 14, 2022
Alternative Insights: Regulatory hosting under scrutiny in the UK
Dec 17, 2021
Alternative Insights: The gradual evolution of EU fund regulation
Dec 03, 2021
Sustainability Insights: The UK's new sustainability disclosure regime
Nov 19, 2021
Alternative Insights: The UK's Autumn 2021 Budget
Nov 05, 2021