On March 1, 2023, the U.S. Senate voted to revoke us U.S. Department of Labor rule allowing retirement funds to consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in their decision making. ESG Investing is not “woke” investing.
Gandhi famously remarked: first they ignore you; then they laugh at you; then they fight you; then you win. ESG has entered the fighting stage.
The filings were submitted on behalf of investors to address data privacy, employee benefits, and political spending ahead of proxy season.
As investors, we share a common perspective that comprehensive reproductive and maternal healthcare are essential and necessary for the health and wellbeing of workers and their families, and that they should be foremost priorities of the companies in whom we invest.
Are offsets — a way of balancing out the carbon one emits — our best chance at addressing climate change? Or are they nothing more than indulgences that assuage guilt?
Women have always been treated unequally in the workplace and in the labor market. And yet astoundingly, rather than recede, the barriers facing working women have grown in recent years.