Fifteen years ago, ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investing was in its Wild West era. Few companies tracked or released data on the social or environmental impact of their operations, or ...
(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) A few weeks ago, I wrote a story about the anti-ESG movement in Texas’s foray into insurance. Soon after ...
If your first thought turns to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) final rules on climate disclosures that are anticipated by the end of this year, your team may not be as prepared as ...
Progressive banks, asset managers, and regulators have successfully imposed the social credit system known as ESG, which stands for environmental, social, and governance, on corporations. In their ...
What started as an investment strategy fueling a movement to evaluate companies’ and countries’ environmental and societal impact, “environmental, social and governance” (ESG) reporting, has become an ...
I have been an outspoken critic of a scoring system known as ESG, short for Environmental, Social, and Governance. The underlying premise of the E in ESG is that we face an existential threat from ...
There is nothing really ‘new’ about it, it has simply transformed. What once was called corporate social responsibility, then changed into sustainability and has now evolved into ESG. There is however ...
After a yearlong wait, the Biden administration has issued a new rule that could make it easier for your retirement plan to invest in environmentally responsible funds. The Department of Labor rule ...
The more the dirty little secrets about environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment schemes are revealed, the faster even its most strident proponents run away from it. BlackRock CEO Larry ...
This post serves as an update to our prior blog post analyzing the impact of this anti-ESG state legislation on public retirement plan investing. Over the past year, 17 states have proposed or adopted ...
It looks like the finance industry’s brief love affair with “responsible” investing is coming to an end. Investment managers are turning on Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance investing.
In America we’ve always enjoyed the freedom to use our own money to support political causes we choose. But, today, many corporate boards and fund managers are investing other people’s money ...