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2. United States: SEC Commissioner Peirce "Airs Her Grievances" With CII
  
  Explore mondaq.com May 14 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...ained public favor strictly as a marketing tool to promote their funds. When investment advisors vote against social issues and are identified as part of the "flat-earth society," he said, they will see an adverse effect...
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  Mentions: Corporate Governance Investors SEC
3. What's ESG and Why Is It Suddenly So Popular?
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance May 1 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ent years, the actions a corporation takes to maximize profit have become more difficult to separate from the social issues they directly influence—including global warming, pay and gender equity and human rights—down to...
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  Mentions: Investors ESG risk
4. How Board Members Really Feel About ESG, from Deniers to True Believers
  
  Explore Harvard Business Review Apr 19 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...sustainability is largely unacceptable today, this archetype isn’t always obvious. In fact, environmental and social issues are most likely to be conspicuous by their absence. One interviewee summed up his company’s atti...
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  Mentions: Sustainability crisis ESG
5. Pressure Builds On CEOs To Navigate Climate Action: It's A New Reality For Corporate America.
  
  Explore forbes.com Apr 17 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ... them about fossil fuel investments. And as a recent Axios Trends piece suggests, pressure on CEOs to address social issues is increasing ahead of the 2020 political campaigns. In particular, demands that they act on cli...
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6. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon: US Companies Should Do More to Address Social Issues
  
  Explore Stock Market Today Apr 4 2019 BoardNews
  
  JPMorgan Co. ( JPM - Get Report ) CEO Jamie Dimon, an often-suggested candidate for a future Presidential candidacy, waded into the current political debate of the nature of American capitalism Thursday in his annual letter to shareholders of the country's biggest bank...
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  Mentions: Dodd-Frank Jamie Dimon JPMorgan
7. An Early Look at 2019 US Shareholder Proposals
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Mar 5 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...g the subject of a shareholder vote at general meetings. In 2018, two campaigns dealing with the high-profile social issues of gun violence and the opioid epidemic received above-majority support levels, and we expect en...
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8. 2019 Proxy Season Preview
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Feb 26 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ... these investors want to understand how boards and management are connecting these kinds of environmental and social issues to their long-term success and embedding related considerations into their risk management and s...
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  Mentions: Sustainability Management Investors
9. You've Committed to Increasing Gender Diversity on Your Board. Here's How to Make it Happen.
  
  Explore Harvard Business Review Feb 18 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...n other important ways. In our survey, we found they are more likely than their male counterparts to say that social issues such as human rights (38% vs. 25%), climate change (27% vs. 13%), and income equality (22% vs. 1...
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  Mentions: Board Diversity Corporate Governance Investors
10. The Road Ahead for Shareholder Activism
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Feb 13 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ... some institutional investors may expand their focus beyond conventional ESG to other political, economic and social issues that appear to directly and significantly impact corporations (such as, possibly, federal immigr...
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  Mentions: Investors Hedge Fund Citigroup
11. US Corporate Governance: Turning Up the Heat
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Feb 10 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...eir investment theses, whether seeking superior returns from companies positively addressing environmental or social issues, factoring ESG into their analyses of risk-adjusted returns or divesting from sectors viewed as ...
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12. The Long View: US Proxy Voting Trends on E&S Issues from 2000 to 2018
  
  Explore corpgov.law.harvard.edu Jan 31 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...to materialize, and voting strategies continue to evolve. A significant portion of votes on environmental and social issues were cast as ABSTAIN until very recently, as some investors refrained from taking a position on ...
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  Mentions: Investment Corporate Governance crisis
13. Pension Politics: Should States Be Investing in Controversial Companies?
  
  Explore Governing magazine Dec 12 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...e, social issues are steeped in emotion and politics. Richtman says her division is in the process of mapping social issues to determine where CalPERS is at risk. The most recent anti-gun movement is a clear illustration...
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14. Australia: Shareholders are Hell-Bent on Punishing and it's Making Boards Nervous
  
  Explore Sydney Morning Herald Dec 12 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...r protest vote aimed at anything from poor financial performance and a sagging share price to behavioural and social issues. Westpac chief executive Brian Hartzer at the company's AGM in Perth on Wednesday, where the ban...
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  Mentions: risk Bank social issues
15. The Law of Unintended Consequences: The Case of Proxy Advisory Firms
  
  Explore forbes.com Nov 15 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...ension crisis. Combining the potential investment losses with the diversity of opinions regarding contentious social issues, it is clear that ESG investing is inappropriate for public pension funds. However, it is unclea...
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  Mentions: Conference Proxy Advisory Conflict of Interest
16. Boards Sharpen Focus on Social Issues
  
  Explore ww2.cfo.com Oct 17 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...nsider them. Increasingly, though, they are doing so... While the population grows ever-more polarized around social issues, corporate boards of directors don’t necessarily need to consider them. Increasingly, though, th...
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