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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…
Representatives of civil rights group Color of Change, Service Employees International Union Local 925 and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project spoke last Thursday at the Washington State Investment Board to urge the board to halt investments with private…
Private Equity firm Platinum Equity owns Securus, one of the largest providers of phone, email, money transfer, and electronic monitoring services to jails, prisons and immigration detention centers in the U.S. In May, the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement…
The Associated Press last week published a story on growing investment by private equity firms in manufactured home (i.e. mobile home) communities, citing a February report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, MHAction and the Americans for Financial…
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.
Entertainment writers and the Writers Guild of America have recently sought to end conflicts of interest by imposing a code of conduct on major talent agencies that represent writers. The largest talent agencies – Endeavor (formerly known as WME IMG)…
Last Sunday, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ran a long segment on the growing investments by private equity firms in manufactured home (i.e. mobile home) communities, threatening a source of affordable housing for millions of…
Last week, institutional investment publication Responsible Investor ran an article “Denmark’s ATP and US pension funds under pressure over links to US bail bond industry,” looking at Endeavour Capital’s investment in Aladdin Bail Bonds and the institutional investors behind…
The Washington Post today ran a long article, “A billion-dollar empire made up of mobile homes” on how some of the largest private equity firms in the world, including The Blackstone Group, Apollo Global Management, TPG Capital, Brookfield Asset…
