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The largest alternative asset manager’s extensive fossil fuels investments face litigation, community opposition and environmental violations The risks of fossil fuel investments came into sharp focus for the world’s largest alternative asset manager, The Blackstone Group, over the past several…
Coal has become less competitive as a power source and has been a prime target in efforts to halt climate change. The plunge in demand for electricity due to the global coronavirus pandemic is expected to hasten coal’s decline as…
As the oil industry shudders through cratering demand and rock-bottom prices, analysts are expecting a wave of bankruptcies,[1] a particular vulnerability for companies carrying a heavy debt load. Private equity firms poured $65 billion into oil investments in…
Over the last decade, private equity and similar investment firms have bought up growing portions of the US housing market, acquiring apartments, single family homes, and manufactured home communities. Wall Street landlords now own the homes of millions…
Investments by private equity firms in the health care industry have surged in recent years and continue to grow. In 2018, the value of private equity deals in health care reached a record-breaking $31 billion for 388 transactions. Globally, health…
Investments by private equity firms in the health care industry have surged in recent years and continue to grow. In 2018, the value of private equity deals in health care reached a record-breaking $31 billion for 388 transactions. Globally, health…
In August, an article in The Intercept highlighted investments by private equity firm The Blackstone Group in a Brazilian infrastructure company that has spurred deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. In recent weeks, global attention has focused on the…
A new report by the New York Times last week revealed that medical staffing firms owned by private equity managers KKR and Blackstone have poured millions into opposing legislation that would ban surprise medical billing.[i] Through a shadowy…
Full report available here. Over the past decade, more than 1.3 million people have lost their jobs due to trouble or bankruptcies at retail companies owned by private equity and hedge funds, according to a new study released…
In a May 19 opinion piece, Rana Foroohar of the Financial Times highlighted the growing ownership by private equity firms of manufactured home (i.e. mobile home) communities, drawing on the February 2019 report by the Private Equity Stakeholder…
Earlier this month, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, the Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, and the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), put out an update on private equity investment in single family rental homes.
