"A leader in an underserved market," one judge remarked, securing Asia Pacific-focused private credit manager ADM Capital as Investor of the year (asset manager) for 2025.

Last year ADM Capital became the first adopter of TNFD in Hong Kong, and shortly after, published a report mapping its climate and nature risk assessment by integrating TCFD and TNFD together. The report also published "advanced" scenario analysis of both physical and transition risks.

In 2024, ADM began the implementation of its proprietary ESG data management platform – powered by data collection and management tool Dasseti – which measures and tracks 66 ESG metrics. This "cutting edge" tool allows the asset manager to track the environmental and social action plans of each portfolio company.

Looking to investment activity, it completed two investments from its Asia Climate-smart Landscape Fund deploying $10.7 million of the fund's capital.

The blended finance vehicle was launched the year prior to invest in sustainable agriculture in Indonesia. It utilises a 50% asset-level guarantee from the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC).