Democrats and Republicans clash proxy advisor influences ESG ...

The hearing zeroed in on the influence of proxy advisors on shareholder voting decisions on questions related to ESG investing.

House GOP Continues Attacks on ESG Investing

House Republicans characterized ESG as “woke” and an attempt to steer investor dollars toward social causes, at the financial expense of those investors.

Business fights back as Republican state lawmakers push anti-ESG ...

The tussles have implications for large investment firms that manage billions of dollars for state pension plans.

House Republicans move to silence Wall Street in climate fight

Committee conservatives will target the process in which advocates pressure public companies to adopt environmental, social and governance (ESG) ...

Parallel ESG Investigations: Reading the Congressional Tea Leaves

Congress' intent to collaborate with state attorneys general could not get much clearer. In March 2023, we suggested there were clear signals that ...

The Conservative Case for ESG

that fund managers focus on their fiduciary duty to maximize investment returns for stockholders, not on political arguments about how corporations make profits ...

House Republicans target proxy-advisory firms for promoting ESG

House Republicans on Sept. 10 warned of what they said is an outsized influence from proxy-advisory firms on the institutional investors they work with.

State AGs and ESG: Political Whiplash for Policymakers and ...

After years of financial and investment firms solidifying their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) bona fides, the political push-and-pull ...

Opposition to environmental, social, and corporate governance ...

This section contains a selection of state government activities opposing ESG investing, especially in the management of public funds such as pensions. The ...

The Making and Meaning of ESG

Lund & Elizabeth Pollman, The Corporate Governance Machine,. 121 Colum. L. Rev. 2563, 2613 (2021) (stating that “[t]he term ESG was coined by ...

ESG: Politics Over Policy and the Consequences - Politico

In recent years policy proposals have been introduced at the state and federal level to restrict or mandate the consideration of environmental, social, ...

ESG, Public Pensions, and Compelled Speech

Many institutional inves- tors—including public pension funds funded by mandatory contributions from government employees—now incorporate ESG ...

The Death of Convergence and its Implications for ESG --Anti-ESG ...

ESG investing debates have taken on national significance as Democratic-aligned shareholder activists clash with Republicans increasingly adopting anti-ESG ...

The Democratic battle plan on ESG - E&E News by POLITICO

Months before Republicans held weeks of hearings against environmental, social and governance investing, Democrats were preparing their ...

Dear board directors, please don't shoot the proxy messenger

Diligent advisers and engaged investors are vital for a well-functioning shareholder democracy.

BlackRock, Vanguard Blasted by GOP Senators for ESG Proxy Voting

The three asset managers are using their stakes in public companies to cast proxy votes that favor a “liberal political agenda,” according to a Tuesday report.

THE NEW CORPORATE POLITICAL GOVERNANCE

It investigates how new corporate so- cial activism, the growth in ESG investments, the reemergence of retail investors, and a changing political calculus for ...

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Lucian Bebchuk and Robert Jackson argue that the Tesla board's prediction that restoring Musk's old pay package would require no new compensation charge to ...

The Democratic battle plan on ESG | U.S. Congressman Sean Casten

Months before Republicans held weeks of hearings against environmental, social and governance investing, Democrats were preparing their response ...

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