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
Coffee & Beverage Cups and other foam packaging in investor focus – McDonald’s Corp and Dunkin’ Donuts Respond to activist / advocacy Investor Concerns As You Sow congratulated Dunkin’ Donuts brand managers for agreeing to phase out polystyrene (foam) beverage and other packaging, joining McDonald’s (As You Sow and company… Read More
New Corporate “E” and “S” QualityScores For 1,500 Companies Are In Addition to the Core “G” Score for Corporate Governance For Investors / Fiduciaries... More “big news” for both corporate sustainability officers and sustainable investment professionals at the start of 2018: Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which began operations in the… 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
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
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
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
The Authoritative Barron’s Magazine Now Sets the Pace: Sustainable Investing Is a Powerful Force in Today’s Capital Markets, So Say The Editors
October 10, 2017
Important update: February 4, 2018 -- see end of this brief for details. About Barron's It's the "bible" for Wall Street professionals, who take in the print and digital content (usually over the weekend) to find out more about the markets -- and then plunge into the serious work on… Read More
Issue 2.3 - October 4 2017 Tech companies are especially in the crosshairs on this and related issues. This is a heads up, especially, to Tech firm executives and board rooms and key insiders of all company sizes: Powerful key capital market players don't like to see IPOs coming to market now with… Read More
NORWAY SWF REACHES US$1 TRILLION IN ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT — Is Your Company in its Global Investment Portfolio?
September 27, 2017
Issue 2.2 The first "Sovereign Wealth Fund" ("SWF") was created in 1954 by the Middle East nation of Kuwait using oil revenues to establish a "fund for the future" to benefit the people of that strategic oil & gas producing country on the west end of the Persian Gulf. In… Read More
TRACKING ESG RATINGS PLAYERS INFLUENCING THE CAPITAL MARKETS…Are These Organizations Watching Your Company?
August 31, 2017
Helping you keep track of the ESG / Sustainability third party analytics service providers assigning Scores, Ratings, Rankings, and Best-in-Class recognitions to Publicly-traded Corporations. This is a feature that will be regularly updated as developments warrant. There is a lot of change going on in this space. BACKGROUND There is… Read More
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