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…years, if not decades, to come. One place it has already touched is “ESG investing,” by whatever name. I certainly don’t want to trivialize the human suffering this war is creating for both the Ukrainian and, to a much lesser extent (at…
The terms “sustainability” and “ESG” are now common in both the public and private equity markets. They are also becoming increasingly common in the bank lending and debt markets. Yet confusion remains about their…
…critics. One of the latter is Clara Miller who recently published “ESG: The Fancy-ful Narrative.” Ms. Miller is someone well qualified to opine on Mr. Fancy’s views. She was the founder and CEO of the NGO Nonprofit Finance Fund for 27…
In my last post I wrote about seven principles for ESG investing. I developed these principles in collaboration with Desiree Fixler. Ms. Fixler was the group sustainability officer at the large German asset…
…claims about how much of its assets under management deserved an “ESG” or green label. This event has only heightened the debate, with others such as Tariq Fancy and Ken Pucker weighing in to question how legitimate ESG investing…
…purpose and sustainability (often referred to by the acronym of ESG for environmental, social, and governance) are now part of the mainstream lexicon in the corporate and investment communities. The two…
…are frustrated by a lake of standardized accounting for corporate ESG performance. This might be about to change thanks to a recent proposal from the IFRS Foundation, which is…
…For each industry, standards have been established for the ESG issues most likely to be material to investors, as seen in its Materiality Map. The standards for each industry are determined from a total list of 26 ESG General…
…to write disclosure rules on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. To date the SEC has done very little in this regard. Reflecting the profound misunderstanding many members of the Republican party have about the importance…
…or initiatives that embed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in real-world decision making. One of them is the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), and he is the Founding Chairman of the Sustainability…
…be done by integrating environmental, social, and governance issues (ESG integration) into all aspects of the PE process– from initial screening of opportunities to due diligence and negotiating the deal, to oversight of the company while…
…I have been following, writing about, and participating in the “ESG Culture Wars” in the U.S. There has been a great deal of performative activity on both ends of the political spectrum.…
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