By Hank Boerner – Chair & Chief Strategist, G&A Institute Corporate ESG Data, Data, Data – they're now everywhere and being digested, analyzed and applied to corporate equity analytics and portfolio decision-making. Whether your public company actively participates in the annual round of organizing responses to the ever-more comprehensive queries… Read More
Update -- on First Quarter 2018 ESG / Sustainable Investment Developments Continuing our commentary on the theme suggested by MSCI's Linda Eiling Lee of Volume and Velocity in 2018 (of change) – current developments have been signalling dramatic and rapid changes in sustainable investing and corporate sustainability in the First Quarter… Read More
THE UNIVERSE OF ESG RANKERS SERVING INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR CLIENTS EXPANDS to Include a Significant Player: Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)
January 16, 2018
ISS’ Traditional Corporate Governance Focus Expanding to Encompass Environmental & Social QualityScores for Roughly 1,500 Public Companies Coming in January…And Expanding to 5,000 Issuers in Q2 A significant new player is now entering the universe of the growing number of third-party organizations providing institutional investors with ESG rankings and data… Read More
INVESTORS FOCUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, GHG EMISSIONS at Fossil Fuel Companies – and Other Public Companies Beyond the Energy Sector
January 6, 2018
A growing number of institutional investors are focused on “De-carbonizing” their investment portfolios – New York City Pension Funds in the Lead... But the issues are not clear-cut, and the debate goes on among key players in the capital markets…on the investor and corporate sides. One of the leaders of… Read More
FROM OEKOM RESEARCH: Global Companies Pay Close Attention to Third Party Sustainability Rankings, Ratings — And Adjust Strategies Accordingly
November 21, 2017
Issue 4.1 It's a question often raised by boards and senior executives, posed to the management team members: What is the impact, if any, of third-party sustainability rating agencies on our position in the capital markets? Oekom, the global sustainability research organization, has been asking that question annually since 2013. And… Read More
WHERE WILL THE SEC ENFORCERS BE CONCENTRATING THEIR EFFORTS? The Enforcement Division S-p-e-l-l-s It Out
November 15, 2017
Issue 4.4 The designated watchdog by Federal law for securities-related fraud is the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). At times, critics claim that the Commission's enforcement activities are at a "lull" and at other times there is criticism that the agency goes overboard in pursuing real or suspected violations, quite… Read More
CDP’S GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN PROGRAM: Making a Difference For Member Companies, Their Global Supply Chain Partners — and Key Investors
October 19, 2017
Issue 3.4 "The New World Order" and Your Company's Global Supply Chain Responsibility Today, we often speak of "globalization" and "global sourcing" and so on without much thought about how we got here -- it is encouraging to see what a growing number of companies are doing to "more responsibly manage"… Read More
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