ESG Considerations and Private Fund Returns: Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

As the calls from both investors and consumers for companies to integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into their operations and rethink the way they have done business grow louder, funds are increasingly looking to respond to these concerns and integrate consideration of ESG factors into their investment and portfolio management strategies. This means that even “return-first” funds—those whose primary focus remains return on capital—are seeing advantages to considering ESG factors and synergies in connection with their own investment strategies.

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