How BlackRock connects the dots on ESG
How large is the stewardship team at BlackRock? It’s about 45 individuals across the globe. We have three regions: Americas, EMEA...
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The week in GRC: LGIM to press for ethnic diversity on boards, and companies facing new compliance risks amid pandemic
– According to Reuters, a victory for Joe Biden in the US presidential election would signal the end of a period during which the...
Ceres launches sustainability action plan for companies
Ceres on Wednesday launched a framework for what it hopes will be a decade of efforts by companies to make sustainability a...
The intersection of securities lending and ESG investing
In early December 2019 the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund announced that it had ‘decided to suspend stock lending...
The week in GRC: Supreme Court to hear companies’ climate suit appeal, and Treasury warns over ransomware payments
– According to Reuters, US companies with Covid-19 outbreaks are facing an emerging legal threat from claims that employees...
MOL: Reinventing the ESG reporting wheel
MOL's Mikkel Skougaard likes to joke that the only people who used to read the sustainability report from cover to cover were him...
Discretionary adjustments to executive compensation call for careful disclosure
In the wake of uncertainty about the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on public markets, many compensation committees are...
Vanguard keeps up ESG focus
Vanguard has maintained its focus on ESG issues in terms of engagement and voting, according to its investment stewardship report...
The week in GRC: Rio Tinto CEO exit seen as warning to boards, and Fed wants bank diversity info
– The Wall Street Journal reported that a new agreement between the US Department of the Treasury and officials in Delaware may...
Rise in Canadian companies publishing sustainability reports
More than half (58 percent) of companies on the S&P/TSX Composite Index have published a sustainability report this year – a rise...
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