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Companies without any ESG expertise at the board level tend to underperform on sustainability compared with companies that have ESG experts, according to a joint survey by NN Investment Partners and Glass Lewis. The survey uses data from NN Investment Partners’ proprietary ESG Lens score, a tool that provides a single ESG score for each company or country assessed, while considering a wide range of data points. The resulting score is used as a key input for the ov...

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has set its sights on Indian IPOs once the new direct overseas listing policy launches. Once established, this policy will allow Indian companies to list on select overseas stock exchanges. This will be done by issuing their common equity shares to overseas investors instead of DRs. The policy will also allow foreign companies to be listed on the National Stock Exchange of India.   In addition, Indian companies will likely no ...

Governance consultancy Diligent has been on something of an ESG push this year, with acquisitions and the launch of its new ESG Solution service on its Modern GRC platform just last week. Earlier this year the company also hired Matt DiGuiseppe to head its ESG Center of Excellence. DiGuiseppe joined the company from State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) where he was head of Americas asset stewardship. He talks to IR Magazine about finding a framework that is ...

Elon Musk, CEO of Telsa, has said he will likely no longer appear on the company’s earnings calls unless there is something ‘important’ he needs to say. Musk made the comments yesterday during the Q&A section of the Q2 earnings call, which included questions from retail investors pulled from a crowd-sourcing platfo...