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With the uptick in travel nursing since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been record levels of private equity activity in the medical staffing space. With this in mind, PESP healthcare researcher Mary Bugbee authored…
PESP and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) released the Private Equity Climate Risks Scorecard which provides first-of-its-kind research and analysis of eight private equity firms with some of the largest energy…
How Private Equity Makes Us Sicker Tuesday, October 18, 7:30-9:00 PM via Zoom Join by phone or computer. Closed captions in English will be available. A recording will be distributed to all registrants following…
The Carlyle Group’s ties to prominent cultural and academic institutions have been under fire due to the firm’s extensive investments in fossil fuels. The firm ranked last…
PESP healthcare researcher Eileen O’Grady was featured in a story about Prospect Medical Holdings by Philadelphia PBS affiliate WHYY. Prospect Medical Holdings is currently being scrutinized as it…
On September 2, 2022, JAMA Network published a research study[1] examining the association of private equity acquisition of physician practices with changes in health care spending and utilization. The researchers looked at 578 private equity-acquired dermatology,…
After private equity firm Capital Realty bought an age-restricted affordable housing complex, its “residents are facing huge rent hikes, potentially more than doubling what they must pay now, leaving elected officials and advocates to untangle a…
Institutional Investor reported on a paper published by academics from Harvard Business School, University of Chicago, Georgetown University that looked at U.S. companies valued at over $1 billion that were bought by private equity firms from 2010 to…
Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) released their NEW scorecard that sheds light on eight of the largest private equity firms in the world, their collective holdings of billions of dollars…
While the abrupt departure of Carlyle CEO Kewsong Lee in August has drawn significant attention, the company has also struggled in recent months to raise its flagship buyout fund and has seen a significant number of other departures of key…
The new Private Equity Climate Risks Scorecard, authored by PESP and AFREF, has seen wide coverage in the media since its release on September 14. Take a look at what different media…
New Scorecard Shows Private Equity’s Race to the Bottom on Climate Carlyle ranks last, earns an ‘F’ The Carlyle Group, Warburg Pincus, and KKR are the top three offenders on climate among private equity firms,…
