The week in GRC: IOSCO wants better oversight of ESG ratings and judge unlikely to block board diversity law
– The Wall Street Journal reported that President Joe Biden was set to nominate Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to a second...
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Companies advised to be alert to racial equity audit proposals
Governance teams and boards have been warned to stay alert to the prospect of facing shareholder proposals in 2022 urging them to...
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‘Companies aren’t making change at the speed needed’
Can you explain As You Sow’s history of shareholder advocacy on climate-related issues? We’ve been working on climate for more...
The week in GRC: Companies’ climate pledges face tougher scrutiny and SBTi seeks consensus on ‘net-zero’ meaning
– The Wall Street Journal reported that Jes Staley stepped down as CEO of Barclays under pressure from regulators about how he...
Citi to conduct racial equity audit
Citigroup has agreed to have a third party conduct a racial equity audit of the bank, six months after a significant number of its...
Data issues biggest barrier to greater ESG adoption, survey finds
Almost half (49 percent) of investors say a lack of robust ESG data is ‘holding back’ their organization’s further adoption of ESG...
Opinion: Corporate social responsibility is dead
SEC commissioner Allison Herren Lee recently spoke about a paradigm shift with respect to ESG. In a June 2021 address at the...
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Comment: What to do when investors feel there’s a misalignment on pay for performance
Executive compensation has been one of the most widely discussed issues for shareholders in recent history. Pay for performance is...
Most institutional investors have company-wide ESG policies, survey finds
A growing number of institutional investors now have a company-wide policy on ESG investment, with the largest firms leading the...
More than half of S&P Global 1200 using SASB framework
More than 600 companies from the S&P 1200 index now use the SASB standards in their external communications to investors...
