A Capital Group survey released during Schwab Impact cites a lack of consistency in ESG scores, varying company disclosures and differing third-party ratings. By Mark Schoeff Jr. Investors hungry for ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), launched with United Nations backing ...

No longer reserved for niche investment strategies, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles are on track to ...

The Canadian Association of Pension Supervisory Authorities' (CAPSA) draft guideline on ESG sets out three principles as guidance for pension plan administrators: consider ESG characteristics that may ...

As demand for ESG data grows, so does the opportunity for accountants to help businesses meet reporting requirements. The increasing demand for sustainability data presents an opportunity for ...

Whether it is senior management evaluating the company’s ESG strategy, a customer assessing its vendors’ ESG profiles, or the need to comply with regulatory requirements such as the U.S. Securities ...

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board is requesting information from issuers, investors, dealers and municipal advisors on environmental social and governance practices in the municipal securities ...

“There’s more information than ever on ESG investing, but it isn’t helping,” reads James Mackintosh’s recent opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal. He argues that the costs of integrating ...

In early 2022, the ESG ratings industry attracted attention when electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Inc. was dropped from the S&P 500 ESG Index. Explaining its decision, S&P cited perceived ...

The first few months of 2021 witnessed some major milestones in investors’ and regulators’ efforts to get public companies to provide shareholders with more information about environmental, social, ...

There is a lot of noise about ESG these days, and it’s coming from different directions. Mostly from Europe comes the claim that ESG is just greenwashing by the world’s largest asset managers, ...

The majority of large public companies are now reporting environmental, social and governance information, while turning to auditing firms and other providers for assurance to vet the data. The Center ...