In the Media

The ESG advantage of private ownership according to Partners Group's Esther Peiner? Being able to bring the topic directly to the attention of C-level executives at portfolio companies and assets and encourage them to engage.

Against a backdrop of ever-increasing scrutiny on corporate behavior, Infrastructure Investor recently spoke to Esther and five other senior industry professionals to learn how their firms are tackling ESG issues and maintaining a licence to operate.

As renewable energy projects become increasingly cost-competitive, four industry professionals, including Partners Group's Shreya Malik, tell Infrastructure Investor why they prefer a subsidy-free market. This even though the sector's changing risk profile makes investing more challenging for infrastructure investment managers.

"Central to our success is the right PE partner." So says Tom Wyatt, CEO of Partners Group portfolio company KinderCare, who shares his experience of private equity ownership in a blog post published by PE HUB. Tom decided to write the blog after seeing the extensive coverage of the Toys'R'Us collapse – he felt that people needed to see the "other side of the coin" of private equity.

"If ESG considerations are secondary for your firm, you might be surprised by activist interest from time to time." PartnersGroup's Head of ESG & Sustainability Adam Heltzer tells Institutional Investing In Infrastructure magazine why the management of environmental, social and governance factors needs to be front and center of infrastructure investment.

Partners Group explains how it has been using the Impact Management Project (IMP) norms to develop an impact framework for its new impact-at-scale strategy, PG LIFE.

The IMP is a forum for building global consensus on how to measure, manage and report impact. The IMP works with a community of over 2,000 practitioners to share best practices in impact measurement and management. It also facilitates the IMP Structured Network, an unprecedented collaboration of standard-setting organizations that, through their specific and complementary expertise, are coordinating efforts to provide complete guidelines for impact measurement and management.

Blockchain, AI, cybersecurity, data protection, and scalability – these are all topics on the mind of Raymond Schnidrig, Partners Group's Chief Technology Officer, as he explains 'How Partners Group does tech' in this interview with Private Funds Management.

"Fundamentally, Partners Group is about the entrepreneurial ownership and development of assets; that’s our mission. This is not the place to just ‘do deals’.” So says Steffen Meister, Partners Group's Executive Chairman, in an in-depth interview with Private Equity International. Key message: amid increased competition, the firms that will succeed in the future of private markets investing will be partners to business, not financial engineers.