Timely Insights & Perspectives on Corporate Sustainability, Responsibility & Citizenship

Third in the 2018 Series Continuing our commentary on the theme advanced by MSCI’s Linda Eiling Lee – that 2018 would be a year of Volume and Velocity with rapid, dramatic changes in sustainable investing and corporate sustainability, we bring you this update as the “new business year” begins after… Read More
There are two large pension funds in the State of California whose names and abbreviations are well known to other investors and to the boards and senior managements of the companies the funds invest in.  These are the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (“CalPERS”) and the California State Teachers’ Retirement… Read More
Volume and Velocity: These may well be the key characteristics of developments in corporate sustainability and in sustainable investing in the year 2018 -- MSCI and BlackRock Setting the Pace... Bigger, faster, more...this is how Linda-Eling Lee, Global Head of Research for MSCI’s ESG Research Group and her colleague Matt… Read More
Issue 1.8 Shareholder proxy activism is a year-round activity now, with peak periods of communication on critical issues during the early months of the year... in the traditional proxy voting season. The effects of spring 2017 voting could reverberate for the company long after the voting is counted. Some issues that once were tiny vote-generators… Read More