ESG Metrics Remain Elusive for Private Equity Firms
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Months after the SEC’s announced shift toward compiling additional data on companies’ Environmental, Social and Governance metrics, getting hard data on company progress is still a challenge, said panelists at
Mergers & Acquisitions’
Women’s Association of Venture and Equity board member and
Fordham University private equity professor
Sheryl Schwartz. “One of the challenges as an LP is you’re getting all different formats and all different information,” Schwartz said. “To get 120 quarterly reports and then each fund has 20 to 40 companies, there has to be a way of aggregating that data and coming up with conclusions. And that process has not yet been fully developed.”