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LGT Capital Partners joins Steering Committee of the ESG Data Convergence Initiative (EDCI)
LGT Capital Partners is pleased to announce that it has become a member of the Steering Committee of the ESG Data Convergence Initiative (EDCI). This appointment underscores the firm’s commitment to advancing environmental, social and governance (ESG) data standards within private markets and represents an important opportunity to collaborate with other leading investors in this field.
The EDCI is a global partnership of private markets stakeholders committed to streamlining the industry’s historically fragmented approach to collecting and reporting ESG data. Its mission is to create a critical mass of meaningful, performance-based, and comparable private company sustainability data.
LGT Capital Partners’ election as a member of the Steering Committee reflects its active role in shaping the future of ESG integration. Over the past year, the firm has significantly enhanced its ESG portfolio insights by incorporating granular portfolio company-level data derived from the EDCI framework. This approach, highlighted in LGT Capital Partners’ latest ESG Report, marks a shift from qualitative ESG assessments to quantitative insights, enabling it to measure ESG outcomes more directly and to drive targeted improvements.