Partners Group - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Partners Group is Medium Risk.

Partners Group is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. Partners Group implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	No Data
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	No Data

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Partners Group is a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment, incorporating ESG issues into investment analysis, decision-making, and other business practices (1)(2). The company integrates ESG into its business practices. From its previous Sustainability page: “Partners Group’s Sustainability governance and control framework integrates ESG into the investment process and our Enterprise Risk Management framework, and assures independent monitoring of risks” (3). Partners Group integrates ESG into its business practices. From its 2025 Sustainability Report: the company ties Executive performance measures to ESG, stating that it has “Financial incentives, including ESG margin ratchets, are used to reinforce delivery on resilience, governance, and
operational improvement” (4). However, the company has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (5).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Partners Group does not publish charitable giving guidelines (1).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Partners Group offers unconscious bias training to its employees (1). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Partners Group is a member of the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials, committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 (1)(2)(3). The company is aligned with the Paris Agreement, which entails a commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 (4). Partners Group supports DEI within its business practices. From its Diversity & Inclusion page: “At Partners Group, our commitment to diversity and inclusion is not just a policy; it’s ingrained in the very fabric of our organization” (5). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2025 Sustainability Report: “This helps ensure that ESG margin ratchets are anchored in
business-relevant issues rather than generic criteria, making
them a more effective tool for supporting performance
improvement and risk management over the holding period” (6).