With the initial shock of the Covid-19 pandemic behind us, companies must look forward to continuing business and their dialogue with investors despite the multitude of uncertainties ahead. What does effective ESG communication look like in the new normal? Here we answer some common questions impacting corporates.
How has Covid-19 affected the drive for standardized reporting?
We think investor demand for greater standardization in sustainab...
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Several groups have come together to urge US companies to increase diversity on their boards and present a framework for how such change can be achieved.
The Diverse Corporate Directors Coalition (DCDC) cites a 2018 McKinsey report as stating that companies in the top quartile for ethnic diversity were 43 percent more likely to see above-average profitability. But it also points to a 2018 review of Fortune 500 companies as finding that from 2010 to 2018 the represen...
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Almost half of issuers (45 percent) expect social issues to be more of a focus in upcoming investor engagements than in the past, according to a recent poll of attendees at Nasdaq’s annual IR Forum.
Whereas environmental and governance issues have been at the forefront of ESG interactions with investors in recent years, th...
This article first appeared on MSCI.com.
We examined three approaches to creating a combined ESG score: equal weighting, optimization using historical data and industry-specific weights, represented by MSCI ESG Ratings
In the short term, we found that both equal-weighted and optimized approaches performed better because they had highe...
In the world of investor relations, Sally Curley is an early adopter of ESG. During her 10-year stint as senior vice president of investor relations at Cardinal Health – between 2008 and 2017 – she co-founded the company’s first cross-functional committee to assess and advance ESG initiatives. In her prior role at Genzyme (now Sanofi) she worked closely with the nomination and governance committee, as the company’s vice president of IR.
After leaving Cardi...
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Very different ESG issues can be material for different industries. Our research suggests that risks can be divided into two main types: ‘event‘ risks and ‘erosion‘ risks to companies’ long-term competitiveness
Environmental key issues were purely erosion-driven (they unfolded over time...
Investors are increasingly creating their own proprietary ESG research and scoring methodologies, although they continue to use ratings firms as a key source of information, according to speakers at IR Magazine’s ESG Integration Forum – Summer 2020.
The forum, which took place last week in a virtual format, tackled issues such as the impact of Covid-19 on ESG reporting, the outcome of this year’s AGM season and developing a sustainability program duri...