Understand your portfolio's ESG and diversity metrics at every level
Get the answers you're looking for.
Whether you are an LP or investor looking for GP/manager level data, or looking to go deeper into the underlying portfolio companies. Diligend allows you or your managers to ask any question, in any format.
Get the whole ESG and diversity picture
Integrate with ESG market data using our powerful API, or use your collected data alone. Then present your proprietary data in a way that suits you - graphs, charts, tables. Data visualization has never been so easy.
ESG data collection in the private equity sector
What are the key ESG considerations for private equity GPs
There are a number of key ESG considerations that private equity GPs should take into account. These include:
Environmental impact
Private equity firms should consider the environmental impact of their portfolio companies' operations and products. This includes emissions, resource consumption, waste generation, and other environmental factors.
Social impact
Private equity firms should also consider the social impact of their portfolio companies' operations. This includes issues such as working conditions, employee relations, and community relations.
Governance
Private equity firms should consider the governance practices of their portfolio companies. This includes issues such as board composition, executive compensation, and shareholder rights.
ESG data collection for asset allocators
Clarity and comparability
Map questions to funds or managers to understand how your portfolio meets ESG and DEI targets. Slice and dice the data for benchmarking and comparisons.
Why choose Diligend for gathering ESG and diversity data?
Digitized Questionnaire Engine
Use industry best practice templates or create custom ESG and DEI questionnaires that meet your exact specifications.
Fund, portfolio company and GP/Manager Data Tracking
Set up pre-defined flags and alerts to track ESG or DEI risks within funds, portfolio companies or GPs/managers.
Workflow and Collaboration
Allocate tasks, track activities and progress. Fully customizable to match your own processes. Assured with a full audit trail.
Review and Risk Management
Review only the data you want and need to see in the flexible review module.
Automated Scoring and Comparison
Understand your portfolio at a glance, with automated scoring and comparison.
Analytics and Reporting
Give stakeholders what they need, fast with automated ESG and DEI report creation in any format. Linked directly to your CRM or database.
User Friendly GP/Manager Portal
Empower GPs and managers with an intuitive portal. GPs and Managers can pre-fill from previous answers or drag and drop where required.
Research, CRM and Document Management
Enrich your data. Track contacts, emails and shared documents with Outlook and SharePoint integrations.
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SITUATION
FEG needed greater visibility into the gender and ethnic diversity of the leadership teams across its portfolio of fund managers.
SOLUTION
Diligend Investor Platform allowed FEG to design and share a custom diversity and equality questionnaire with its manager community. Diligend presented the results via analytics dashboards which highlight gaps or areas of concern.
IMPACT
FEG onboarded with Diligend, designed and distributed questionnaires and gathered responses from over 400 managers within four weeks. Intelligent dashboards provided actionable insights and full visibility across the portfolio.
Diligend and eFront, a part of Blackrock, collaborate to streamline collection of private markets environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data
Private markets are notoriously opaque and data transparency has always been a challenge, particularly where ESG data is concerned.
eFront recently formed a consortium of GPs and LPs and worked on defining a universal questionnaire covering key ESG tracking metrics across a portfolio of private assets.
Diligend’s strong presence in alternatives due diligence, combined with the eFront platform’s ESG framework, further enables asset allocators (LPs), asset managers (GPs), and portfolio companies (PortCos) to report on relevant ESG credentials in a streamlined workflow.