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Tag: ESG

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FASB Begins Process of Setting Accounting Standards for Environmental Reporting

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Summer is the season for projects. As day-to-day life slows down for a few months, the most industrious among us often use the break to knock out nagging tasks that have been sitting on to-do lists. DIYers – those fanatics who spend their d...

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SEC Announces First ESG-Related Settlement

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The Securities and Exchange Commission continues to break new ground in the realm of environmental, social and governance regulation. After filing its first ESG-related lawsuit last month, the agency now has announced its first ESG-related...

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Proxy Season Brings Socially Motivated Shareholder Proposals from Both Sides of the Aisle

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It’s nothing new to see activists showing up at annual shareholder meetings to protest banks’ social agendas. In fact, they’re typically taking financial institutions to task for what they perceive as a lack of any agenda at all. Recently,...

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The Biggest Stories of Gary Gensler’s Year One at the SEC

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Gary Gensler celebrated his first full year on the job as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. While the SEC had a business-friendly reputation under predecessor Jay Clayton, Gensler was billed as a reformer. In addition to deali...

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Carl Icahn: Champion of Animal Rights?

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So-called activist investors come in many different shapes and sizes. Broadly speaking, they all seek to use their equity positions in companies to influence management. What they want to accomplish can vary dramatically. A legend in the ac...

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