News Archive - The Predistribution Initiative

Sorenson Impact new report “5 Impact Investing Trends to Watch in 2025″

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Why valuing nature and people is just as important as financials

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New Private Markets: Influencers in sustainable private markets (the ecosystem)

Who are the ‘connectors’ in sustainable private markets? Who is designing thesystems that facilitate sustainable investment activity? As part of our 50 Influencerslist we identify individuals who, through their advice, connections or thoughtleadership, are shaping the space. The Predistribution Initiative, a US-based non-profit, seeks to create a more equitable global financial industry and has been […]

New Private Markets: Employee ownership – primed to scale

Generational shifts and policy developments mean that employee ownership structures are ready to become more common in private markets. Work needs to be done, however, to demonstrate how these relates to specific impact goals, according to panellists at Impact Investor Summit: North America. The Predistribution Initiative is conducting research on the relationship between different forms […]

New Private Markets: Inequality is on the agenda – what now?

Rising inequality is officially on the private markets agenda. The first question is whether institutional investors – and private markets investors specifically – are genuinely motivated to address it. To quote Delilah Rothenberg, co-founder and executive director of the Predistribution Initiative, writing in the non-profit’s latest newsletter: “We often hear a common misperception: ‘Isn’t inequality […]

ESG Investor: Integration of Social Issues Critical to Confront Climate Change

Delilah Rothenberg, Executive Director of the Predistribution Initiative (PDI), told ESG Investor that many institutional investors may “sense that inequality – like climate change and biodiversity loss – may pose system-level risks”. But there is currently “little understanding” about how such risks manifests in financial markets, what private sector activities contribute to inequality, and how […]

Forbes: Does Private Equity (PE) Have An ESG Problem -part 2?

The proposed and enacted SEC rules are a great step in the right direction but suffer from a few limitations. First, they don’t cover all the topics I raise. Second, the information is not necessarily going to be available to the public. Third, the proposed rules, even if enacted, will probably get litigated and it […]

Forbes: Does Private Equity (PE) Have An ESG Problem – Part 1?

There is good PE and bad PE. The opacity of current disclosures makes it difficult to tell which is which, writes Shivaram Rajgopal. […]

Sorenson Impact Center: Rethinking our Economic Systems – A Conversation with Global Impact Leader Delilah Rothenberg

The Global Impact Leaders, from the Sorenson Impact Center, is a diverse and inclusive network of impact practitioners and thought leaders working to solve the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems. In this Q&A, Delilah Rothenberg, an inaugural member of the Global Impact Leaders group, discusses the need for system-level change in how we […]

Pioneers Post: ‘We have to understand the full picture’: why investor contribution is the new frontier

When a social business takes on impact investment and it then reports positive outcomes, can the business’s investor claim the credit – or might this happy ending have occurred anyway? How do all the other decisions made by an investor – from the people it chooses to hire, to its governance, to the policies it […]