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Shinder Explains Potential Pitfalls of ESG Investing

October 13, 2021

In The Hill, Richard Shinder identifies the several challenges with, and negative consequences from, the application of ESG principles to enterprise management and institutional asset allocation.
Republican Lawmakers Question ESG Agenda

October 06, 2021

As the Securities and Exchange Commission works on rules for mandatory environmental, social and governance ("ESG") disclosures, Republican lawmakers are criticizing corporations that embrace the ESG agenda.
Bank of America, Lowe's Sponsored CRT training Urging Whites to ‘Cede Power to People of Color'

August 23, 2021

Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, revealing the critical race theory challenge that Bank of America, Lowe's, and Truist Financial Corporation sponsored through United Way entitled « Racial Equity 21-Day Challenge » which claims that America is systemically and institutionally racist, encourages participants to "decolonize [their] mind[s]", and urges white people to "cede power to people of color."
German Court Rules Facebook Improperly Blocked Accounts

August 03, 2021

Germany’s Federal Court ruled that Facebook’s deletion of comments made by two German users that the company felt violated community standards for hate speech and the blocking of their accounts was done improperly and ordered the comments reinstated.
UK Proposes New Climate-related Disclosure Rules for Standard Listed Companies

July 28, 2021

In 2020, the UK government began it’s mission towards mandatory climate-related disclosures, publishing a roadmap to align with the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and recently has taken it a step further with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) proposing to extend this regime to all issuers of standard listed equity shares.
JD Supra Blog: Is Tax Transparency the New ESG Disclosure Demand?

July 21, 2021

Cooley LLP in the JD Supra Blog analyses an article published in Bloomberg reporting that tax transparency has become a growing “under-the-radar” element of ESG disclosure and explores the debate between investors on the subject.
Twitter Takes Action on Record Number of Accounts for Hate Speech

July 19, 2021

During the second half of 2020, Twitter Inc., in an effort to take action on their expansion of Hate Speech rules, penalized 1,126,990 different accounts, a 77% increase in a six month period, for violating the company’s hate speech policies.
JD Supra: Hogan Lowells explains ESG

July 19, 2021

In an article posted on JD Supra, Hogan Lowells explains Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) standards in detail including its history, potential for sustainability, as well as short and long term effects of its influence on business.
Jack M. Mintz: ESG Rankings are Not Reliable

July 14, 2021

Jack M. Mintz writes in the Financial Post that Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) guidelines cannot be standardized to help make investment decisions due to the fact that most component measures too subjective and goes on to warn that many companies “greenwash” their ESG results to make themselves look better.
KPMG Expands ESG Services

July 14, 2021

After working with the World Economic Forum last year to create a set of 21 core metrics for companies to disclose progress in ESG, KPMG has announced a new initiative called KPMG Impact, that will increase the companies efforts to provide environmental, social and governance services to clients.