In the Media

Partners Group received an A+ rating for 'responsible investment strategy and governance' for the sixth year running in the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment Scorecard and Transparency Report. Each team's efforts are reflected in the latest scorecard, reporting "A+" for direct private equity and infrastructure, and "A" for real estate, private debt, and integrated investments, outperforming the industry median score in all direct strategies. The scores also reflect Partners Group's pledge to managing climate risks and impacts across our investment portfolio and our firm, in line with our climate change strategy. Congratulations to our ESG & Sustainability team, as well as all Partners Group teams and committees who work tirelessly to honor ESG practices across our global platform each year.

In a report published by Institutional Investing in Infrastructure magazine, Partners Group's Private Infrastructure Research Team discusses the global shift in how we generate, use and relate to energy, and explains why our Thematic Sourcing process leads us to believe that natural gas is a necessary companion to renewables as we move toward a cleaner future.

Showcasing one of the IFC's Operating Principles for Impact Management, Partners Group presents a case study on its lead investment in portfolio company Techem, a German energy services provider, demonstrating how it enhanced the company's impact through strategic and operational initiatives, while also improving operational and/or financial metrics.

Partners Group was a first adopter of the IFC's Operating Principles for Impact Management, which launched in 2019, and played an active role in their development. Partners Group applies the principles, which provide a clear common market standard for what constitutes an impact investment, to its impact-at-scale strategy.

Download the IFC's full report here.

When we published our 2019 Corporate Sustainability Report on 2 April, our Co-CEO David Layton told shareholders that Partners Group was raising a Portfolio Employee Support Fund to support the most financially vulnerable employees at our portfolio companies during the #covid19 global health crisis.

Our Co-CEOs, together with our Chairman and our founders, agreed to forgo 100% of their salaries for at least six months to support the fund. There has also been broad participation from Partners Group employees from across all regions; Partners Group as a firm contributed too.

Today, the Portfolio Employee Support Fund has approximately USD 10 million in funds available and has so far allocated approximately USD 6.2 million to portfolio company hardship initiatives.

Longer term, Partners Group remains committed to developing a Stakeholder Benefits Program which aims to systematically re-invest a portion of achieved profit growth for the benefit of portfolio company employees and other stakeholders.

Partners Group's Executive Chairman, Steffen Meister, sat down with PEI to explain the thinking behind the firm's Stakeholder Benefits Program, his belief that the private markets industry will struggle to reach its full potential unless it pays more attention to the employee experience of private markets ownership, and why it is so important to include LPs in the dialogue around stakeholder impact.

Opportunities in Asia’s renewable energy market are booming but require a careful case-by-case approach and local expertise, say Partners Group’s Andrew Kwok and Tim Michalas.