employee engagement

Last week, Investcorp Strategic Capital Group announced it had joined Ownership Works, making it the shared ownership organisation's first GP staking partner.

An essential ingredient to a good employee ownership plan is communication, says Riverside managing partner Jeremy Holland.

Michael Bruun, private equity co-head at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, believes spreading ownership among portflio company workforces is a trend that 'will stay with us independent of where the cycle sits'.

The pension has reduced the size of its re-ups, and in some cases not re-upped at all, on the basis over concerns about portfolio company labour practices, said private equity investment director Anton Orlich.

A key to the global push is KKR’s newly formed Human Capital Center of Excellence, which will co-ordinate the 'whole effort', Pete Stavros, co-head of global private equity, told Buyouts.

The alternatives giant’s systematic employee ownership approach follows a KKR-led initiative aimed at sharing wealth and boosting value creation.

Private equity firms are placing a greater emphasis on employee ownership, engagement and wellbeing. In this article, from affiliate title Private Equity International's Responsible Investment special report, we ask how far-reaching such could initiatives become.

New structures and legislative tailwinds will help private market firms see the value in employee ownership, said panellists at Impact Investor Summit: North America.

The $16bn endowment's global diverse manager approach will differ from its US strategy, according to head of mission investments Roy Swan.

KKR has achieved a 6x average return across three companies where it has implemented employee ownership schemes.