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While the 2009 recession was a financial sinkhole for millions of Americans with more than 3.7 million households being foreclosed upon, ProPublica reported on how private equity-backed companies scooped up tens of thousands of single-family homes lost to foreclosure at…
A new report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project and LittleSis examines a “dirty dozen” of private equity executives whose fossil fuel investments drive climate crisis and environmental injustice. As The Guardian exclusively reported (see ‘Biggest oil barons’: the…
Workers have been on strike in Alabama for nearly 10 months Since April 1, 2021, 900 mineworkers have been on strike after saving their employer more than $1 billion during and after its bankruptcy through cuts in pay, overtime,…
New Private Markets contacted the 10 private equity firms featured in the Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s report: Private Equity Propels the Climate Crisis. The report found that these private equity firms, since 2010, have made energy investments dominated by…
Bloomberg reporter Sabrina Willmer assessed the difficulty of measuring the impact of private equity’s investments that the industry claims are helping the environment and society. She reported how detractors of private equity “question whether an industry known for buying companies…
The New Yorker has reported on another industry in which private equity has been quietly investing. According to the outlet: In the past five years, private-equity firms have acquired dozens of disaster-restoration companies. In 2019, Blackstone, one of the world’s…
In its latest report on how private equity is contributing to the global climate crisis, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project examines the energy holdings for ten of the world’s largest alternative asset managers that manage a total of $3…
Private equity industry publication PERE’s September cover story focuses on private equity’s growing investments in single-family rental homes. In addition to filing to evict thousands of residents during the pandemic, corporate owners of single family homes are influencing market dynamics…
Business Insider recently reported how Wall Street firms have been buying up thousands of homes — to rent them out to the same population they’re outbidding. Business Insider, June 16, 2021: Wall Street firms like BlackRock are snapping up…
The University of Washington’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies hosted a forum that explored the relationship between pension funds and other institutional investors, the climate crisis, and the impacts on communities and the environment. Trustees and representatives of…
While institutional investors increasingly eschew fossil fuels, private equity faces a reckoning The Private Equity Stakeholder Project released a report today that analyzes the energy fund returns for private equity over the past decade. This report finds that private…
Politico reports on private equity firms spending nearly $154 billion on oil, gas and coal since 2010. These firms aren’t required to disclose to regulators their holdings or risks, and any information such funds release to their investors is subjective…
