employee engagement

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.

There are signs that workers are more often figuring into value creation plans as GPs explore shared ownership models.