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…mutual funds that incorporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into their investment policies. In challenging investment managers’ focus on ESG data, however, critics conflate two distinct issues. A body of empirical…
…Strive was founded by the now well-known and ever visible anti-ESG/anti-Woke Mr. Vivek Ramaswamy and the less publicly exposed Mr. Anson Frericks. Licking its chops, an August 15 editorial in The Wall Street Journal , “The ESG…
…body of empirical evidence that a focus on a company’s material ESG issues contributes to financial performance. All good news, right? Ironically, maybe not for Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs), by whatever name, who fail to…
…expanding activist efforts to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues that are material to long-term investors. Examples include campaigns to encourage Apple to give families more effective tools to address the negative impacts…
…incentive we provide to hold management’s feet to the fire. For an ESG example, take activist firm Engine No. 1’s successful campaign last year to add three independent directors to ExxonMobil’s board, with the aim of getting the oil…
…clients—asset owners—about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and financial performance. Engagement on ESG has grown appreciably as the positive relationship between ESG and financial performance has become clear. But…
…could invite. In particular, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations that safeguard against risks and ensure good corporate stewardship provide a natural home and framework to guard against these harms. As focus on…
…change risk, and is widely expected to promulgate climate change and ESG disclosure requirements, while the Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued guidance to staff on the incorporation of ESG matters, including climate change,…
…conversation about the complexities and consequences of a potential ESG rulemaking.” Perhaps in hope of brandishing some green credentials, Peirce plays the naturalist by beginning with an endearing tutorial on the 17-year Cicadian cycle…
…duties and climate change The need for directors to consider ESG risks generally and climate change risks specifically in order to fulfil their corporate law duties has been discussed extensively. For climate change, see, for…
…the importance of material environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues at the stock and portfolio level. An important step but system-level investing is a step beyond that which requires a whole new theoretical basis. The…
…last December. The report advises moving beyond traditional ESG practices to system-level thinking: “Systems theory is more than just an extra discipline to be studied; it is as much a way of thinking and communicating that needs…
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