Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance and responsible investment solutions to the global financial community, today announced the launch of Vote Preference, a suite of flexible solutions enabling asset managers to offer voting choices directly to their underlying clients.
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If in 2020 and 2021, everything in technology seemed to work for investors, 2022 was the year that nothing worked. This year, a huge proportion of gains have been given back on the unified belief that technology, as a whole, could suffer from high rates and the end of the economic cycle. We believe that cybersecurity and robotics could be better positioned for a slowdown than this year's indiscriminate selloff would indicate.
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announced today that it is seeking input on improving access to real-time market data for equity securities, including several proposed regulatory options to improve its availability.
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Six months after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said that it would require companies to publish their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-change risks annually, the number of companies reporting such information has grown.
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CDP, the not-for-profit which runs the global environmental disclosure platform for corporations, and the IFRS Foundation have today announced that CDP will incorporate the International Sustainability Standard Board’s (ISSB) IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures Standard [IFRS S2] into its global environmental disclosure platform, in a major step towards delivering a comprehensive global baseline for capital markets through the adoption of ISSB standards.
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'It's not a dirty thing. It's not something we should say, 'ew, that's gross'.
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A survey finds that investors' attitudes vary widely by age, wealth and the specific ESG issue.
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In summer 2022, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Hoover Institution Working Group on Corporate Governance at Stanford University, and Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University jointly conducted a nationwide survey of 2,470 investors to understand how American investors view environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities among the companies in their investment portfolio.
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