News Archive - The Predistribution Initiative

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. […]

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

Investor Contribution 2.0 is funded by Omidyar Network, and is currently focused on private capital asset classes. We spoke to Mike McCreless at Impact Frontiers – which picked up the work of the global consensus-building initiative Impact Management Project when it finished in 2021 – and Delilah Rothenburg at Predistribution Initiative. They told us why […]

Responsible Investor: Groups exploring social and inequality TCFD equivalents announce mergerResponsible Investor:

The Taskforce on Inequality-related Financial Disclosures (TIFD) and the organisations preparing a Taskforce on Social-related Financial Disclosures (TSFD) are consolidating efforts into a single initiative. Plans for TIFD were first announced in 2020 with the aim of providing guidance, thresholds, targets and metrics for companies and investors to measure and manage their impacts on inequality, […]

ESG Investor: Consultation on Measuring ‘Investor Contribution to Impact’ Launched

The new project on measuring ‘investor contribution to impact’ is being led by Impact Frontiers and the Predistribution Initiative (PDI) a non-profit focused on investment structures that share more wealth with communities and workers. Impact Frontiers is the successor organisation to the Impact Management Project. Delilah Rothenberg, Co-Founding Partner at PDI, said it had launched […]

New Private Markets: In brief: Get under the skin of systemic sustainability risks

“Two organizations – the Predistribution Initiative and Impact Frontiers – are working on a framework to manage sustainability risks born from the way we currently invest; they want input from LPs and GPs.” […]

Buyouts: Private equity could fall afoul of Florida’s new ESG investment ban

ESG and impact investing organizations are taking note as America’s fourth biggest pension system acts against the movement. […]

Private Funds CFO: Tax takes its place in ESG

Investors need better tools to measure and manage responsible tax practices. […]

ImpactAlpha: Is private equity’s employee ownership plan the real deal?

Many impact investors want to address the growing wealth gap that is undermining democracy and economic stability in the U.S. But if employees get a small percent of the equity shares in a private equity portfolio company, while executives get a lion’s share, the wealth gap will continue to grow. “This is not the solution,” says Delilah […]

ImpactAlpha: Expanding the ‘S’ in ESG to account for the full scope of corporate impact on workers and communities

From the Great Resignation to the historic worker-organized unionization of an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, N.Y., worker empowerment represents an increasingly important lever for corporate accountability. The bottom-up grassroots energy, combined with top-down government action, creates a unique opportunity to advance the conversation around the role of corporations in society and the ‘S’ in ESG […] As we […]