Environmental, Social and Governance, or "ESG" refers to three central factors in measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of investments. A growing number of investors rely on these factors to determine whether they ultimately want to invest, or continue to invest, in a given business. The practice places value on companies' choices to be environmentally conscious, ethically aware, and forward-looking. While ESG investment may be characterized as ethical in its approach to capture environmental and social impacts, at its core, ESG investment involves gauging a company's long-term, rather than short-term sustainability.
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Fifty-eight percent of hedge fund assets will be tied to ESG factors in 2020, BarclayHedge says.
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Beginning in the new year, public companies (including venture issuers) incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) will be required to include expanded diversity information about their boards and senior management teams in their annual proxy circulars presented to shareholders.
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published Staff Notice 51-358 Reporting of Climate Change-related Risks (the "Staff Notice") on August 1, 2019. The purpose of the Staff Notice is to provide guidance to boards of directors and management of reporting issuers as to how to properly identify and assess material climate change-related risks so that they may improve their disclosure of those risks. The Staff Notice does not modify or create legal obligations for reporting issuers. Rather, it reinforces the existing guidance in CSA Staff Notice 51-333 Environmental Reporting Guidance. The Staff Notice is intended solely as an educational tool for issuers to support their compliance with the requirement to disclosure material climate change-related risks.
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Companies that wait for government sustainability standards may see declining brand reputation and financial investment.
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Industry changes are nevertheless seeing a new wave of innovation.
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For several decades now, investors have increasingly focused on issues involving executive compensation.
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Financial markets are mechanisms for aggregating the behaviors and preferences of lots of human beings, which means that financial economics is essentially the study of human behavior. Mostly the behavior that gets studied is, you know, buying and selling stocks, stuff like that. Sometimes, though, it's jokes.
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Johanna Tahtinen of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development explains how boards can improve governance systems to meaningfully integrate ESG.
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