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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 […]

Next City: Former Wall Street Pro Says to Tackle Inequality, Start With Changing Wall Street

The Predistribution Initiative is devoted to reducing inequality by changing the basic business practices of Wall Street. What will it take for it to succeed? Delilah Rothenberg has obsessed over inequality since her college years at NYU, where she studied neo-colonialism and neo-imperialism as a triple major in history, politics and African Studies […] Rothenberg […]

New Private Markets: ‘Regulatory arbitrage’ threatens private markets if SEC does not keep pace

The Predistribution Initiative, a US-based non-profit organisation seeking to create a more equitable global financial industry, hosted the virtual discussion, which covered recent and upcoming rules proposals from the US Securities and Exchange Commission […] According to Delilah Rothenberg, The Predistribution Initiative’s executive director, regulatory loopholes do not stop at environmental reporting. “Inequality is growing […]

New Private Markets: Why tax is creeping up the ESG agenda

Predistribution Initiative, a US-based non-profit organisation supporting financial industry reform, is helping to launch the framework to help reduce “systemic risks to the health of the overall economy”, Delilah Rothenberg, the group’s executive director, told New Private Markets in an interview in January. TIFD is not expected to launch for a few years. In the […]