The Needle Continues to Move Forward – Developments in Corporate Sustainability / Responsibility and Sustainable Investing Continue to Shape an Important Year

September 10, 2018

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

“PROOF OF CONCEPT” FOR SUSTAINABLE INVESTING? Barron’s Weighs In With Inaugural List of Top 100 Sustainable Companies

February 7, 2018

We're thinking - Dramatic “Proof of Concept” for Sustainable Investing? The Influential Barron’s Publication Continues Its Focus on Sustainable Investing, Names the Inaugural Roster of "The Top 100 Sustainable Companies -- Big Corporations With The Best ESG Policies Have Been Beating the Stock Market." Barron’s, owned by the Dow Jones… Read More

IS YOUR COMPANY’S KEY DATA & “SECRET SAUCE” SAFE? Pssst! Foreign Entities Are Snooping…

December 6, 2017

A Management Brief - For Various Functions Within Your Company Addressing the Risks for U.S. Companies -- A Trio of Experts Look at China's Organized Cyber Espionage, and Impacts on Trade, Tech Transfer, Strategic Advantage...and Other Concerns for Multinationals "Cybersecurity" is an important buzzword now among stakeholders -- investors, customers,… 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

SEC Proposes Important Amendments to “Reg FD” – Many Changes Are in the Wind — But Corporate ESG Disclosure Is Not Addressed by the Agency…

October 12, 2017

October 11, 2017 - Important news for your company out of Washington DC from the Securities & Exchange Commission - On Corporate Disclosure and Reporting -- "Reforms" Proposed We've been watching and waiting since Spring 2016 to see what the Securities & Exchange Commission may be thinking about or doing regarding the possible revamping of… Read More

IT’S H-E-R-E NOW: SEC Guidance on CEO-Employee Pay Rule Clarified in Interpretive Guidance. Your Company Should Be Prepared for First Quarter 2018 Disclosures and Beyond!

September 25, 2017

Issue 2.1 Prepared September 27, 2017 Way back when, as the Dodd-Frank legislation was passed, a provision was included that called for public companies to annually disclose the ratio of compensation for the CEO (presumably the highest paid) and for the median compensation (of all employees). Was it going to be… Read More

THE CORPORATE PROXY VOTING SEASON: When Company-Shareowner Engagement May Not Be Working — Investors Look to the Ballot Box

August 31, 2017

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

The Needle Continues to Move Forward – Developments in Corporate Sustainability / Responsibility and Sustainable Investing Continue to Shape an Important Year

“PROOF OF CONCEPT” FOR SUSTAINABLE INVESTING? Barron’s Weighs In With Inaugural List of Top 100 Sustainable Companies

IS YOUR COMPANY’S KEY DATA & “SECRET SAUCE” SAFE? Pssst! Foreign Entities Are Snooping…

WHERE WILL THE SEC ENFORCERS BE CONCENTRATING THEIR EFFORTS? The Enforcement Division S-p-e-l-l-s It Out

SEC Proposes Important Amendments to “Reg FD” – Many Changes Are in the Wind — But Corporate ESG Disclosure Is Not Addressed by the Agency…

IT’S H-E-R-E NOW: SEC Guidance on CEO-Employee Pay Rule Clarified in Interpretive Guidance. Your Company Should Be Prepared for First Quarter 2018 Disclosures and Beyond!

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