Yahoo Finance: After being caught on the wrong side of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and the Adani scandal, hundreds of ESG fund managers are now dealing with the sting of having misjudged Silicon Valley Bank.
BNN Bloomberg: The failure of Silicon Valley Bank has become the latest target for conservative politicians and news outlets in their mounting campaign against ESG.
Business Wire: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment announced the appointment of Maria Lettini as Chief Executive Officer. Lettini will begin her tenure on May 15, 2023, succeeding Lisa Woll.
ESG Clarity: Shareholders are voting for greater transparency on lobbying and political activity at the US companies they invest in, but fund giants Vanguard and BlackRock are holding back support.
CNBC: A group of Republican state financial officers gathered last February at a Hyatt hotel in downtown New Orleans to take aim at one of the party’s corporate enemies: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.
Bloomberg Law: Former Securities and Exchange Commission heads on Wednesday suggested how the regulator can encourage companies to improve diversity at the board level and throughout their business.
CNBC: The Senate voted to overturn a Labor Department rule that permits fiduciary retirement fund managers to consider climate change, good corporate governance and other factors when making investments on behalf of pension plan participants.
CNBC: Republican lawmakers who railed against “woke capitalism” in the 2022 midterm elections have taken tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from some of the same Wall Street money managers they have attacked for pushing what the GOP calls “far-left” positions on environmental, social and corporate governance issues.
Environmental Finance: January 2023 marks four years since RBC Capital Markets launched its Sustainable Finance Group. As the team reflects on the tremendous evolution across the sustainable finance market during this time, they review the key themes that could define progress in the year ahead.
Harvard Business School: The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could make a difference.
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