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    Sustainable Investing at Goldman Sachs Alternatives Completes Acquisition of Atlas-SSI

    2025-04-01

    PR Newswire: Atlas-SSI Holdings, LLC ("Atlas-SSI" or the "Company"), a North American supplier of water management equipment for the protection of mission-critical assets and water ecosystems, announced its acquisition by the Sustainable Investing team at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.

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    OCC Ends Climate Risk Guidance For Large Banks

    2025-04-01

    ESG Dive: The OCC’s decision to withdraw the guidance on managing climate-related risks comes almost a month after the agency announced it was departing the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System

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    Sustainalytics: DEI Rollbacks Have Limited Impact on ESG Risk Ratings but Raise Broader Concerns for Investors

    2025-03-28

    ESG News: Major US corporations, including Meta, McDonald’s, Walmart, Bank of America, and BlackRock, have recently scaled back their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. However, these changes may have limited direct effects on ESG Risk Ratings, according to Morningstar Sustainalytics.

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    SEC Votes to End Defense of Climate Disclosure Rules

    2025-03-27

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: The Securities and Exchange Commission voted to end its defense of the rules requiring disclosure of climate-related risks and greenhouse gas emissions.

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    JPMorgan Rebrands DEI, Leaves Net-Zero Asset Managers Initiative

    2025-03-24

    ESG Dive: JPMorgan Chase announced changes to its internal practices on diversity, equity and inclusion and its external memberships in climate-related organizations last week, ESG Dive confirmed.

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    BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street Seek Dismissal of Red States’ Coal Antitrust Suit

    2025-03-21

    Yahoo Finance: The lawsuit alleging the three asset managers had conspired to “artificially constrict” the U.S. coal market was first filed in November, claiming the asset managers had made “substantial” investments in public coal companies to get them to drive down their output. 

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    SEC Pushes Back Names Rule Compliance Dates

    2025-03-18

    ESG Dive: When the SEC initially adopted the updated Names Rule in 2023, the largest funds previously had until Dec. 11, 2025 to comply, with smaller funds due to comply six months after.

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    UBS Purges DEI From Annual Report Amid Trump’s Backlash

    2025-03-17

    Advisor Hub: UBS Group AG’s annual report no longer refers to a key sustainability term that has come under attack from the Trump administration, indicating how the backlash is impacting European firms.

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    US Banks Turn to SEC to Dodge Climate, Social Shareholder Proposals

    2024-03-14

    ESG Dive: Major U.S. banks who looked to the Securities and Exchange Commission to allow for excluding shareholder proposals with requests to disclose banks’ climate change planning and exposures were turned down by the agency. 

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    JP Morgan Boss Attacks ‘Incompetent’ Advisers That Pushed Diversity Agenda

    2024-03-13

    Yahoo Finance: The chief executive of JP Morgan has branded two of the world’s top shareholder proxy advisers “incompetent” amid a growing backlash over their support for diversity policies.

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