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.
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.
Corporations that are truly bullish about their prospects use a significant share of current earnings to expand. Curiously, that’s not what the oil industry is doing.
With the rise in popularity of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing, it’s no surprise that securities regulators are giving more thought to how fund managers and advisors use the term in their marketing and investment processes. With this in mind, we are keenly interested in two proposed SEC rules regarding ESG.
Here’s our rebuttal to some common anti-ESG talking points.
Let’s begin with an understatement: 2020 has been a tough year. Centuries of harmful social and environmental policies and practices have culminated in the one-two punch of global pandemic and civil unrest stemming from the horrific death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. As summer arrives, the weary population is just […]