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Norway has the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world with some $1.4 trillion in assets under management. That’s $244,000 for every man, woman, and child in this country of 5.4 million people. Lucky Norwegians! Its formal name is…
I have previously written about how investors must address income inequality in a similar manner as climate change. It’s now over three years later and the investment community has yet to make serious progress on addressing the fundamental…
Corporate purpose has gone mainstream. A transformation? A new world of enlightened capitalism? Not a bit of it. Even though corporate purpose statements are appearing everywhere, for most companies, it’s business as usual with some pretty…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly taking over. But not in the robot-coup type of scenario that inspires multimillion dollar box office hits. Rather, AI protects our credit cards from fraudulent activity, helps employers to hire and…
…at a big Unilever event a couple of years ago. “In the field of sustainability when and how should entrepreneurs also be activists?” I thought that was pretty interesting and the idea stuck with me.
COP26 officially kicks off on October 31. The general tone leading up to this is one of hope, mixed with a large dose of understandable skepticism. In a few weeks, we’ll know the outcome in terms of commitments made and not made. For the…
…for nine years. I met Ms. Miller when she joined the board of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) when I was the Chairman and she served for seven years. (SASB is now called the Value Reporting Foundation [VFR] after…
…in collaboration with Desiree Fixler. Ms. Fixler was the group sustainability officer at the large German asset…
…of DWS’s dramatic dismissal of Desiree Fixler. She was the group sustainability officer at the big German asset manager DWS…
…No. 1 campaign is regarded by many as a major contribution to “sustainability.” The Elliott Advisors campaign is being considered by many as a rather muted form of activist investing that lacks the traditional punch, although it…
One week ago today on July 20, 2021 Trump appointee SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce (R) gave a 4,725 word speech to the Brookings Institution titillatingly titled “Chocolate-Covered Cicadas.” The purpose of this cute title eludes me…
After baseball, litigation is America’s national sport. A Harvard Law School paper, “Comparative Litigation Rates,” by Professors J. Mark Ramseyer & Eric B. Rasmusen notes that the U.S. has 5,806 lawsuits per 100,000 people. The U.K. is a…
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