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Author: Mark Olsen

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BlackRock Facing Political Pressure from Both Sides Over ESG

Eco-friendly investing with a torn bag

Perhaps it’s the curse of being the world’s largest asset manager, but it seems like BlackRock just can’t win when it comes to ESG investing. No one is shedding any tears for an investment firm with $8.5 trillion in assets under its control...

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Audit Failures Lead to SEC Action Against Deloitte-China

FINE Blocks logo with Deloitte partnership

Some auditors in the Chinese affiliate of Big Four accounting firm Deloitte have apparently been taking a unique approach to their work. Rather than evaluating their clients’ financial reporting, they let the clients audit themselves, accor...

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Conservative Politicians Unite in Attacks on Corporate ESG Initiatives

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With the 2022 midterm elections just weeks away, many Republican politicians’ campaigns are zeroing in on corporate ESG programs as objects of derision. They’re painting companies’ environmental, social and governance initiatives as stealth...

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SEC Raises the Stakes for Corporate Whistleblowers

Payphone left hanging in black and white

Get ready for more corporate whistleblowers to come out of the woodwork. At least that’s the takeaway from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s latest changes to its whistleblower program. In an effort to fortify investor protections, t...

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Chinese Companies Delist from U.S. Exchange as Audit Conflict Persists

Frosted leaf symbolizing frozen accountability for foreign companies

Hundreds of thousands of people from the United States travel to Taiwan in any given year, according to the island nation’s tourism bureau. For the average U.S. tourist, a stopover there during a tour of Asian countries wouldn’t seem unusua...

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