ESG aspects ranked by importance to PE firms in Europe and the U.S. Q4 2023-Q1 2024

Published by Statista Research Department, Dec 10, 2024

Public reporting was ranked as the second-highest 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 53 percent of respondents having ranked governance and resources in the number one or number spot.

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) aspects ranked by level of importance to private equity (PE) firms in selected European countries and the United States from 4th quarter 2023 to 1st quarter 2024

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September 2024

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Region

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

Survey time period

Q4 2023 and Q1 2024

Number of respondents

250 respondents

Special properties

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 head quartered in the UK (16%), Germany (14%), France(13%), U.S. (8%), the Netherlands (7%), Italy (6%), Sweden (6%), Belgium (6%), Spain (4%), Finland (4%), Norway (3%), Denmark (3%), Switzerland (2%), Portugal (2%), Austria (2%), Luxembourg (2%), Greece (1%) and Ireland (1%).
Firm size by capital under management; 27 percent of firms held between 250 and 500 million EUR. 18 percent held between 500 million and one billion EUR. 55 percent held above one billion EUR.

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