Importance of ESG to PE firms Europe and U.S. 2024| ��ƽ��

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) aspects ranked by level of importance to private equity (PE) firms in selected European countries and the United States in the fourth quarter of 2024

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March 2025

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Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Survey time period

Q4 2024

Number of respondents

250 respondents

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Ranking from 1 (most important) to 8 (least important).

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Question asked to survey participants: “Rank aspects of responsible investing in importance to you from 1 (most important) to 8 (least important)??”.

Survey participants details.

Managing directors or partners from 250 private equity firms.
Firms were headquartered in the UK (17%), Germany (13%), France(13%), U.S. (8%), the Netherlands (6%), Belgium (6%), Italy (5%), Sweden (4%), Spain (4%), Finland (3%), Norway (4%), Denmark (4%), Switzerland (3%), Portugal (4%), Austria (1%), Luxembourg (2%), Greece (1%) and Ireland (2%).
Firm size by capital under management: 23 percent of firms held between 250 and 500 million EUR. 21 percent held between 500 million and one billion EUR. 56 percent held above one billion EUR.

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Public reporting was ranked as the **** area of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) importance by private equity (PE) firms headquartered in selected areas of Europe and the United States. Governance and resources was ranked as the most important area of ESG, with ** percent of respondents having ranked governance and resources in the number one or number two spot.