ESG

One thing that has not changed on the eve of 2021 is the barnacle-like presence of ESG on the short-list of topics confronting asset managers. ...

The AMAC’s continued focus on key topics within the asset management industry, including updates from the AMAC’s subcommittees focusing on private investments, ESG investments—or, as ...

"As ESG investing has increased, it has engendered important and substantial questions with numerous observers identifying a lack of precision and consistency in the marketplace ...

The Department of Labor has quietly updated ERISA rules to require private pension plan fiduciaries to put financial returns ahead of sustainable goals in investing, ...

Identifying asset managers who proclaim ESG, but don’t live it, is not so easy. Investors are pouring assets into ESG-labelled investment products, and asset managers ...

Investment advisers have widely panned the Trump Administration’s efforts to rein in sustainable investments. Under rules proposed by Department of Labor officials June 30, pension ...

"Asset managers responsible for trillions in investments, issuers, lenders, credit rating agencies, analysts, index providers, stock exchanges—nearly all types of market participants—use ESG as a ...

But to many investors, the SRI concept looks at more than just returns. They instruct their advisers to avoid tobacco stocks, industries that contribute to ...

Pension managers and advisers would not be allowed put their clients’ money in sustainable investments if the ethical goals of the investments lower returns or ...

Asset managers who offer “green” or “sustainable” investments ought to disclose how they’re using those terms, Republican SEC Commissioner Elad Roisman says. “How are they ...