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This report summarizes feedback on the Taskforce's proposed scope and governance model from a diverse set of stakeholders, including over 1000 representatives from business, financial institutions, civil society, labour, data providers, and others.

Institutional investors with a social mandate will receive a boost later this year through the launch of a Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD), which intends to heighten information availability and reduce reporting burdens.

The initiative will aim to develop a global framework for inequality and social-related disclosures so that companies and investors can communicate their inequality and social-related impacts, dependencies risks and opportunities, including as they relate to governance, strategy and management processes.

Rising inequality is officially on the private markets agenda. The first question is whether institutional investors – and private markets investors specifically – are genuinely motivated to address it.

Rising inequalities both between and within countries are fueling polarization and protectionist pressures, hampering social cohesion and political stability. Leading economists are calling for society to combat inequality.

Investors limited by lack of data and tools to incorporate social factors into sustainable finance strategies due to an “overwhelming focus” on environmental issues.

The Taskforce on Inequality-related Financial Disclosures has merged with the Taskforce on Social-related Financial Disclosures to form the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures.

To achieve its goal, the TISFD will develop a global framework for inequality and social-related disclosures so that companies and investors can communicate their inequality and social-related impacts, dependencies risks, and opportunities.