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November 22, 2022

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ISS Launches 'Vote Preference' Solution

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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Themes in Focus: Cybersecurity, Robotics

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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Canadian Securities Regulators Seek Input on Regulatory Regime for Accessing Real-time Market Data

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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The SEC's Climate Rules Aren't Yet Final, But Companies Are Already Disclosing More of Their Carbon Emissions

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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ISSB at COP27: CDP to Incorporate ISSB Climate-related Disclosures Standard into Global Environmental Disclosure Platform

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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What Are Share Buybacks and Why Is Ottawa Taxing Them?

'It's not a dirty thing. It's not something we should say, 'ew, that's gross'.

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How Investors Feel About ESG Initiatives

A survey finds that investors' attitudes vary widely by age, wealth and the specific ESG issue.

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2022 Survey of Investors, Retirement Savings, and ESG

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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