Global investment firm The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) has released its 2020 Impact Review, its annual report on its approach to creating impact through its investments. This year’s report focuses on Carlyle’s strategy for creating impact by building better businesses, which the firm defines through five key facets that it believes drive better businesses – diverse and inclusive teams, engaged employees, sustainable growth, climate resilience, and strong community ties.
The 2020 Impact Review demonstrates how Carlyle’s two main approaches over the last year have helped it advance its impact work even during the current COVID-19 pandemic, the economic recession it has triggered as well as the social justice movement sweeping the nation. These two approaches are:
Carlyle Co-Chief Executive Officers Kewsong Lee and Glenn Youngkin said, “From due diligence through exit, our impact approach at Carlyle is rooted in building better businesses from the bottom up and top down. The Carlyle 2020 Impact Review speaks to our expanded focus on this long-term strategy and demonstrates how our holistic approach is driving change forward even in challenging times, which further underscores the importance of this work. As we continue to prioritize our people and portfolio companies through this period, we believe this is a time to push forward on our impact strategy, and not pull back.”
Carlyle Global Head of Impact Megan Starr added, “Building off our core work of ESG integration, we believe our focus on collecting better data, setting and achieving ambitious goals for systemically important issues and innovating on the impact of private capital will allow us to use impact as a lens for finding value for our investors in this changing world.”
The Review details Carlyle’s investment theses and specific case studies of value-creation. Highlights include:
The full report is available to download here. For more information about Carlyle’s impact approach, please visit Carlyle.com/our-impact.
About The Carlyle Group
The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across four business segments: Corporate Private Equity, Real Assets, Global Credit and Investment Solutions. With $217 billion of assets under management as of March 31, 2020, Carlyle’s purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, portfolio companies and the communities in which we live and invest. The Carlyle Group employs more than 1,775 people in 32 offices across six continents. Further information is available at www.carlyle.com. Follow The Carlyle Group on Twitter @OneCarlyle.