TPG Rise Climate’s foray into climate resilience and adaptation
TPG’s climate-focused fund has joined with Milan-based Renaissance Partners to acquire a controlling stake in SICIT Group S.p.A, an Italian company that converts …
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Apis & Heritage aims to help business owners ‘exit responsibly’ — to their employees
With the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, ImpactAlpha is lifting up investment strategies that are expanding opportunity in today’s complex environment. The idea that a …
With $120 billion of uncalled capital, Brookfield seeks overlooked opportunities amid market volatility and uncertainty
Big PE is shrugging off tariffs and capital constraints hamstringing many of its smaller peers. Case in point: Brookfield Asset Management, which hauled …
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KKR’s Pete Stavros: Employee ownership is a competitive advantage in private equity (Q&A)
Private equity firms, long known for laying off workers to boost profits, are instead starting to look for a competitive edge by sharing …
Neuberger Berman raises $300 million for second private equity impact fund
The 86-year-old, employee-owned investment manager in New York launched its impact-focused private equity fund strategy in 2021, raising $280 million to invest in …
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With markets down, up and sideways, investors look to ownership, AI and the rest of the world
Titans of finance convened for a collective pep talk at the Milken Global Conference, telling each other that maybe the economic damage won’t …
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African leadership is reshaping the continent’s small business investing ecosystem
The Trump administration’s abrupt halt to overseas assistance has given new urgency to a longstanding critique: that such grants and aid, well intentioned …
An allocator’s guide to reigning in private equity’s worst excesses in healthcare
Asset owners are converging around standards for managing portfolio and real-world climate risks, with net-zero targets and greater expectations for private equity fund …
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With its stake in Henry Schein, KKR pushes shared ownership of public companies
The ironies are rich. KKR, the private equity buyout giant, has become the largest non-index fund shareholder in Henry Schein, a publicly-traded supplier …
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KKR acquires Dawsongroup in latest climate strategy investment
Private equity behemoth KKR has agreed to acquire Dawsongroup, a UK-based asset leasing business, through the investment firm’s global climate strategy. Dawsongroup, a …
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Patient outcomes, value-creation and headline risk in health care private equity
Private equity healthcare investment strategies are facing enormous regulatory, financial and headline risks. Two such private equity investors in healthcare, Apollo Global Management …
Hamilton Lane launches impact fund 3 (exclusive)
Investment management and consulting firm Hamilton Lane has launched its third impact fund, ImpactAlpha can exclusively report. The fund has a $600 million …
As private equity fundraising goes south, whither impact investing in 2025?
Institutional investors and other limited partners are getting impatient to get their money back from private equity funds. And as they get crankier …
Finding impact alpha in private equity: Institutional investors demand performance – and their money back
It’s crunch time for impact private equity fund managers as they face restive limited partners, volatile economic conditions and few ways to exit …
LeapFrog Investments closes fourth fund at $808 million
LeapFrog Investments has been in the market since 2022 with its fourth fund, targeting a cool $1 billion. It closed the fund about …
Apollo impact and climate funds make industrial contractor play
Private markets giant Apollo Global Management has invested in an industrial construction company from its impact and climate funds. The funds have acquired …
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Bain Capital Double Impact bets on sustainable agriculture with buyout and merger
Bain Capital Double Impact, the impact vertical of private equity firm Bain Capital, has made its first foray into sustainable agriculture. The investment …
For private equity investors, energy transition trends trump election results
Wait and see. That was the tone of private equity managers and investors at this week’s SuperReturn private capital conference in midtown Manhattan …
Private equity, like banks, pours money into fossil fuel companies
It’s not just global banks doubling down on carbon-emitting fuels. Private equity, an opaque corner of the financial industry that oversees more than …
Nuveen Private Equity Impact secures C$200 million to tackle climate change and inequality
Nuveen, the $1.3 trillion investment management arm of insurance giant TIAA, is betting that “climate change and inequality, two of the biggest challenges …
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Blackstone’s embrace of employee ownership signals a shift in private equity – and in the power of workers
When Blackstone makes its next large US private equity purchase, it will grant equity shares to most workers at the company. The $143 …
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Impact Engine doubles down on “purpose built” private equity with $85 million fund
Impact investing has become trendy among private equity firms as the sector seeks to redeem its reputation for debt-fueled and externality-laden profits. When …
Deal spotlight: Keyword for private equity giants: infrastructure
ImpactAlpha, February 9 — It was Infrastructure Week in private equity. As the private equity earnings cycle gets underway, Apollo, KKR and Brookfield …
Brookfield’s second Global Transition Fund raises $10 billion for decarbonization and data centers
ImpactAlpha, February 6 — After raising its inaugural $15 billion Global Transition Fund in 2022, Brookfield has identified a pipeline of investment opportunities, …
TPG NEXT anchors Black-led private equity strategy
ImpactAlpha, January 16 — TPG NEXT, backed by a $500 million allocation from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, has lined up a …
Deal spotlight: Employee ownership as a competitive advantage
ImpactAlpha, August 18 — KKR’s acquisition of New York-based book publishing giant Simon & Schuster earlier this month signals that investors with employee-ownership …
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Three steps private equity can take to capture alpha through diversity and inclusion
Private equity firms often bring sector-specific expertise and a seasoned perspective to their investments, knowing how to best create efficiencies, improve operations and …
The long and winding road to responsible private equity with Tensie Whelan
Host Brian Walsh is joined by NYU’s Tensie Whelan to hear why more and more private equity firms are starting to embrace impact …
QED portfolio company RestLess is fighting ageism in the U.K. Photo: Shutterstock
How venture firm QED Investors is embracing ESG to strengthen its fintech portfolio
As a concept, ESG is nothing new. The idea of explicitly looking at environmental, social and governance issues as a holy trinity of …
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ImpactAlpha Deal Spotlight: Mergers and acquisitions
ImpactAlpha, July 22 — Evidence from the Great Financial Crisis shows that investors that made significant acquisitions have outperformed those that didn’t. Large …
Delilah Rothenberg, Predistribution Initiative
It’s easy to pile on private equity. The industry’s predilection for heaping debt and risk onto companies and workers, while paying itself lavishly, …
Leverage, compensation and taxation: Doing due diligence on investment fund managers
Impact Alpha, Jan. 7 – Reforming capitalism is all the rage. Many of us in the ESG and impact investing communities are enthusiastic …
Leveraged buyout funds help businesses convert to worker-ownership
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 13 – The widening wealth gap has sparked interest in worker ownership models that can build individual and community wealth. Across …