IR Magazine has released a new report investigating the impact on IR of human capital management (HCM). The report examines how companies should report on workplace practices and personnel decisions, both within the company and in the supply chain. The report also looks at how investors engage with HCM and what human capital issues are of particular interest to them.
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Acting SEC chair Allison Herren Lee has taken action on corporate reporting around climate change.
Lee last week issued a statement announcing that she has directed the division of corporation finance to ‘enhance its focus on climate-related disclosure in public company filings’, noting that the SEC in February 2010 issued guidance on existing disclosure requirements as they apply ...
IR Magazine’s Jeff Cossette talks to Joe Vicari, practice lead for ESG at Broadridge Financial Solutions, on how disclosure will at least attract greater scrutiny – and potentially even regulatory mandate – under US President Joe Biden’s government, where companies go wrong on ESG and why they should be casting a wider net when it comes to thinking like an investor.
This episode of The Ticker is sponsored by Broadridge Financial Solutions
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A new meta-study looking at a wide array of research from the past five years underlines the links between ESG and positive outcomes for companies and investors.
Researchers from the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business and Rockefeller Asset Management looked at 1,141 peer-reviewed papers and 27 meta-reviews – themselves based on r...
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While it may seem we have been on the cusp of mainstream integration of sustainability – or ESG issues – for many years now, perhaps 2020 was the year it actually happened. Indeed, so much is happening at so many levels, from the identification of global systemic risks that ...
The adoption of ESG reporting has increased significantly since 2016, with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) being the most-used reporting framework, according to a new study from Millani.
More than two thirds (71 percent) of companies included in the S&P/TSX Composite index published a 2019 ESG or sustainability report, according to Millani’s analysis, which was completed in December 2020.
The number of Canadian companies publishing ESG or sustaina...
Endemic failures in ESG issues cause public harm, can ruin a business’ reputation and ultimately even threaten its existence. But there remains one sector not subject to ESG impact and risk disclosures: responsible artificial intelligence and autonomous systems (AI systems). To overlook AI systems in any material dataset of ESG metrics can be likened to building the spine of responsible business and omitting the spinal cord at its center.
AI systems could be respo...
At least six US companies have received investor requests to put proposals to a vote at their AGMs this year on the topic of employee board representation.
Starbucks’ 2021 proxy statement, for example, includes a proposal from James McRitchie – the investor behind the flurry of filings on the topic – tha...
Dozens of business leaders this week committed their organizations to using a new set of ESG-related metrics and disclosures developed in collaboration with the Big Four accounting firms.
The 61 signatories, revealed at the World Economic Forum’s Davos conference, will start using ‘stakeholder capitalism metrics’ as an initiative intended to speed up convergence among the main private ESG standard-setters and to bring greater comparability and consistency to E...
Shareholders of The Walt Disney Company will vote on proposals regarding two governance issues in the spotlight – lobbying activities and board composition – at the upcoming annual meeting.
Multiple co-filers intend to present a proposal, which the board opposes, requesting full disclosure of Disney’s direct and indirect lobbying activities and expenditures to assess whether this is consistent with the company’s goals and in the best interests of shareholder...