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ESG is the private equity industry’s next frontier

Corporate Knights

But PE is well placed to lead sustainable investing. In 2021 , the PE industry reached more than US$5 trillion in assets under management, with expectations to grow well beyond $11 trillion by 2026. Research by BlackRock shows that PE outperformed the S&P 500 and MSCI World indexes by 2.8

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UK Stewardship Code to Keep up with the Times

Chris Hall

The revised version of the code should then be published in early 2025, with a likely effective date in January 2026. “We We must remember what this is all really about – and that’s driving those long-term sustainable investment returns,” said Tweedie.