Our Work
We specifically focus on four workstreams that are designed to address the interconnected root causes of systemic and systematic risks.
Co-creating measurement, target-setting, disclosure, and evaluation tools focused on investors’ impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities. This work includes:
- Being part of the founding Working Group of the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-Related Financial Disclosures (TISFD), an evidence-based, multi-stakeholder global initiative supported by financial institutions, business, civil society, and labour leaders worldwide to develop recommendations and guidance for businesses and financial institutions to understand and report on impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities related to people.
- A partnership with Impact Frontiers (an initiative of the Impact Management Project) to develop metrics to gauge how investors are contributing to systemic risks.
Facilitating capacity building to improve investment governance and financial analysis practices to better account for people and nature.
- In partnership with the Responsible Asset Allocator Initiative (RAAI) and Paul O’Brien (a Trustee of Wyoming’s retirement system and former Deputy Chief Investment Officer of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority), PDI is collaborating with leaders in the institutional asset owner and allocator community to explore uptake of these new approaches.
Identifying, refining and scaling innovative, inclusive and regenerative investment structures.
- As part of PDI’s efforts to co-create improved investment structures and practices that share more wealth and influence with workers and communities, we invite interested parties to join the evolving Ownership Lens Investing Movement.
- A recent (virtual) convening resulted in an inspiring gathering of minds that echoed a shared commitment to scaling strategies and capital to build wealth and influence for individuals and communities. The October 16 session showcased the potential of a “big tent” approach to ownership lens investing (OLI) across shared ownership of enterprise and real assets, as well as individual ownership. For more information, see the session recording and key takeaways. If you would like to stay updated and get involved, you can fill out this brief survey.
Public Policy Engagement
The Predistribution Initiative periodically engages in public policy and regulatory reform. Please see below for examples of our comment letters to various public consultation periods:
- Amendments to Form PF to Require Current Reporting and Amend Reporting Requirements for Large Private Equity Advisers and Large Liquidity Fund Advisers (read the original SEC proposal)
- Reopening of Comment Period for Pay Versus Performance (read the original SEC proposal)
- Climate Change Disclosures (read the SEC call for public input)