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Highlights 2025
Industry Standards
Invest Europe develops practical, market-leading guidance – “by the industry, for the industry” – across key thematic areas. Our mission is to support members in real time with market-anchored resources that help align their operations with best practices, while reflecting regulatory requirements, market developments, evolving investor expectations, and international standards.
Invest Europe has continued to build a modular guidance framework aimed at helping GPs and LPs operate, comply, and report effectively, through “living” practical and actionable tools that bridge the gap between EU rules and market reality and deliver a structured, high-frequency webinar programme designed to translate complex EU policy and market shifts as they happen through interactive discussions.
Key numbers
6
webinars on operationally relevant issues
> attracted more than 900 members
3
new or revised publications offering tailored and practical guidance for the industry
3rd
edition of the annual Invest Europe ESG Gathering
> attracted more than 70 members
2
active Committees
7
Working Groups and Task Forces
Highlights 2025
Industry Standards
Against an evolving global backdrop, we remained committed to building a community and delivering practical operational insights on emerging and increasingly important industry topics, including AI, human rights, valuations, impact investing, and ESG reporting.
- Publication of a dedicated member-only guide on the UK FCA review of valuation practices across the UK funds sector
- Launched a brand-new Human Rights Due Diligence Tool:
- Built for investment and ESG teams, this high-level, sector-agnostic framework helps GPs identify potential risks, spot red flags, and assess governance and mitigation capacity — all aligned with international best practice
- Released the 2025 Invest Europe ESG Reporting Template, an inherent part of the Invest Europe ESG Reporting Guidelines
- The 2025 update focused on consolidating and fine-tuning the template, addressing ambiguities and enhancing relevance and user-friendliness, while ensuring continued alignment with EU legislation and key industry initiatives
- Following a renewed review process ensuring broader member representation
- Hosted 6 webinars on operationally relevant issues, attracting almost 900 members – in addition to 3 webinars covering key regulatory developments, such as the Sustainability Omnibus Package, AIFMD 2.0 and SFDR 2.0
- AI webinar series — Practical AI use cases (January)
- 2024 Invest Europe ESG Reporting Template (February)
- Sustainability amidst global geopolitical and policy developments (April)
- AI webinar series — AI through a sustainability lens (July)
- Impact investing webinar series — Value creation (September)
- Launch webinar — New Human Rights Due Diligence Tool (October)
- Organised the third edition of the annual Invest Europe ESG Gathering, offering a valuable opportunity for members to connect with peers, exchange insights on best practices and challenges, and explore the latest developments and emerging trends in ESG
- Acted as Secretariat to the IPEV Board, spearheading the review process and overseeing the publication of the 2025 IPEV Valuation Guidelines
- Continued the review of the Invest Europe Climate Change Guide, due to be published in Q2 2026
- Completed Invest Europe’s carbon footprint calculation for 2024, continuing the association’s journey to become carbon neutral by 2030
- Successfully completed Invest Europe’s diversity programme, achieving 30% female representation across the governance structure — including each elected body individually
- The European Commission recognised Invest Europe as “among the more proactive and transparent in its climate performance” and “a leader in aligning private capital with EU climate objectives, setting a benchmark for peer organisations across sectors”.
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