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"The research was conducted by EDM Council's ESG Data Workgroup and explores the challenges that asset owners face in their role as capital allocators within the evolving ESG data landscape, while offering guidance on how institutions can address these obstacles."

Listen back to this webinar to get insight on the impact on your business of the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.

The Invest Europe Annual Report provides a comprehensive overview of our activities in 2021. Whether in Political advocacy, Industry Data & Research, Communication, Conferences & events, Industry excellence & training and Finance & administration, our secretariat has been hard at work to address and pre-empt members’ needs.

In this short comment piece Invest Europe shares various ideas on how to promote innovation across the continent through the support of private equity funds.

The most comprehensive analysis of fundraising, investment and divestment trends with data on more than 1,800 European private equity and venture capital firms, the 2021 statistics cover 91% of the €754bn in capital under management in Europe.

"This standard represents a practical application of the GHG Protocol and the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF) Standard to private equity investing, and is designed to support ESG professionals at private markets firms."

"The study’s findings suggest that PE acquisition has mixed consequences for patient-level outcomes overall but is associated with moderate and consistent improvement in mortality among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction."

In this response Invest Europe commented on the issues posed by the SEC rules on Private Funds, arguing, in line with the American Investment Council, that rules are over-prescriptive and could affect the virtuous relationship between fund managers and investors.

Detailed evidence and analysis of the European private equity and venture capital industry’s real contribution to employment, in 2020, and job creation, in 2019-20, and the far-reaching impact this has on the people, societies and economies of Europe.

We are pleased to see that the EU implementation of OECD Pillar 2 on minimum taxation sticks very closely to the OECD agreement, including notably on the carve outs.

In our feedback, we provide a number of suggestions to better ensure that entities with genuine commercial purposes will not incorrectly fall within the scope of the proposed Directive and be impacted unintentionally.

"Although private equity acquisition of short-term acute care hospitals purportedly improves efficiency and cost-effectiveness, financial performance after acquisition remains unexamined. We compared changes in the financial performance of 176 hospitals acquired during 2005–14 versus changes in matched control hospitals."

"The Mid-market Argos Index tracks the valuation of unlisted eurozone SMEs."

North American's PE diversity is getting better but is still behind Corporate America.