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PDI: Is there a Role for Institutional Investors in Addressing the Affordable Housing Crisis?

Key takeaways from the Predistribution Initiative’s July 21 roundtable on affordable housing […]

PDI: Climate Solutions Require Supportive Investment Structures

A recent article by Nathaniel Bullard on Bloomberg.com noted that heady valuations and investor fear of missing out, coupled with the need to fund planetary-scale innovation has provided a tailwind for climate tech. During the first half of 2021, about $16 billion of funding was invested across carbon, consumer, energy, food and water, industrial, and mobility sectors […]

Thomson Reuters Foundation News: Why the SEC should consider corporate and investor ESG disclosures

All eyes have been on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) following the agency’s recent invitation for public comments on how it should approach climate change and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures. Hundreds of investors, companies, sustainability advocates and civil society organizations voiced their support for the agency’s efforts to “[facilitate] the disclosure of […]

Responsible Investor: The state of ESG 2.0: from incremental to systemic change

A new report translates the difficult questions we have on sustainability into suggested investment changes […] “Predistribution Initiative’s ESG 2.0: Measuring & Managing Investor Risks Beyond the Enterprise-level tackles these systemic issues head on, providing a detailed analysis of problematic investment trends in recent years. The paper highlights the inherent contradictions of more ‘traditional’ ESG […]

ESG 2.0: Measuring & Managing Investor Risks Beyond the Enterprise Level

Do environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and impact investing practices in their current forms provide investors with sufficient tools to play a meaningful role in “Building Back Better” following the COVID-19 crisis? Many investors, including those who identify as “Universal Owners,” often seek to manage ESG risk and opportunity through corporate governance interventions. However, certain […]

Responsible Investor: Why jobs, taxes and competition should be the focus of ESG investors

ESG funds’ bias against workers is unintentional, but it is a feature rather than a bug […] A new paper by The Predistribution Initiative, ESG 2.0: Measuring & Managing Investor Risks Beyond the Enterprise-level, foregrounds potential negative impacts from capital structures themselves, not just portfolio companies. […]

Private Inequity: How the Private Equity Industry Needs to Improve When Addressing Systemic & Systematic Risks

According to a new report about the private equity (PE) industry, the majority of PE firms are not doing enough to take systematic risks seriously in both their business operations and investment portfolios. The report, “Private Inequity: How the Private Equity Industry Needs to Improve When Addressing Systemic and Systematic Risks,” analyzed how PE firms […]

Toolkit For Developing Responses to The SEC Comment Period On Climate & ESG Disclosure

On March 15, 2021, the SEC issued a request for public input on the Commission’s rules and guidance regarding climate change and ESG disclosures. This request signals an inflection point and an important opportunity. We encourage those in the Predistribution Initiative (PDI) community to respond to the SEC’s inquiry with your feedback on why mandatory […]

Top1000funds.com: New benchmarks for ESG accountability

While data suggests that the ESG and impact investing markets are growing rapidly, concerns abound about how financial services firms are measuring and managing their ESG and impact investing performance, writes Delilah Rothenberg. […]

Private Inequity: How the Private Equity Industry Needs to Improve When Addressing Systemic & Systematic Risks

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