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Private Equity Firms Are Paving the Way to a More Sustainable Future 

Richard Matthews

A large and growing share of that investment capitol is going towards impact investments. In an interview with Private Equity International (PEI), Tania Carnegie, the Global Private Equity and Asset Management Leader for KPMG Impact, said she is confident about the future of impact investing.

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JUST Capital’s New Head of Investor Strategies Says It’s ‘Increasingly Irresponsible’ to Ignore ESG

Just Capital

That interest had already been growing among shareholders, but investors hadn’t really been vocal about how they were increasingly viewing human capital as a source of value creation in the firm versus merely a cost to be minimized. It’s like, “OK, companies, are you going to have stranded assets in the future?

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Defining Sustainable Economic Systems – Development vs Growth

Richard Matthews

Sustainable capitalism resists short-term thinking and endeavors to maximize long-term economic value creation. It does this by reforming markets to address real needs while factoring costs and stakeholder concerns. However, it remains focused on profit maximization.