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“The private equity industry is growing in importance. In recent years, companies have remained private longer. Furthermore, limited partner (LP) allocations to private markets continue to increase as underfunded pensions and endowments search for yield in a low interest rate environment, and in pursuit of diversification as the universe of public companies shrinks. From our […]
Read More… from PRI: Aligning private equity investment practices and structures with ESG goals
“The COVID-19 recession has prompted states to offer vast amounts of financial support to firms and households. When combined with steps that central banks have taken in response to the financial crisis of 2008, the bailout is so large that it has ushered in what Sebastian Mallaby, writing in the July/August 2020 issue of Foreign […]
Denise Hearn argues that investors’ interests may not always be aligned with those of society, and questions assumptions around win-win dynamics […] “Stakeholder capitalism proponents must be willing to sit with these inherent tensions and contradictions. They must also be willing to challenge corporate power, not simply create endless new product mixes that do not […]
Read More… from Responsible Investor: The strange success logic of stakeholder capitalism
Responsible investors need to take into account how fund management and investment structures may be exacerbating wealth and income disparities, as well as systemic market risk writes Raphaele Chappe and Delilah Rothenberg. […]
Read More… from Top1000funds.com: A more thoughtful private equity model
The Predistribution Initiative shares updates on its policy & economic outlook given COVID-19. Click here for more info. […]
This article is part of Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s Rethinking Corporate Governance blog series. “Are investors well-positioned to represent human rights interests? This is core to a debate about new models of ‘stakeholder capitalism,’ particularly given last year’s Business Roundtable’s statement on corporate purpose. As Paul Rissman points out in a prior blog in this series, “One […]
Delilah Rothenberg and Amanda Feldman on private equity, disclosure and rethinking the system. […]
