With a view toward promoting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments and building a more sustainable society, the Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA) has proposed new guidelines that ...

Sustainability has become huge focal points for the legions of investment bankers, acquisitive CEOs and private equity firms ...

The ESG Fund Names Guidelines apply to Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (“UCITS”) Management Companies and Alternative Investment Fund Managers (“AIFMs”) (together ...

The rules are designed to create guardrails for the growing — yet largely unchecked — market of socially conscious investing. The Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to deliver some tough ...

With ESG rapidly growing in importance throughout the global financial community, the Saudi Exchange – one of the world’s largest stock markets with a total market capitalization of over $2.5 trillion ...

Seventeen Democrat attorneys general told Congress this week that environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are critical to understanding the true value of a company, and thus should continue ...

President Biden used his very first veto to squash a bipartisan resolution that would effectively ban using environmental, social and governance (ESG) guidelines when investing retirement funds. He ...

This article is written by Sheryl Tian Tong Lee. It appeared first on the Bloomberg Terminal. A new set of voluntary guidelines for Chinese companies to report environmental, social and governance ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The guidelines outline how institutions should identify, ...

In recent years, many ESG rating agencies have been established worldwide to guide investors as to where their money is best spent. They use environment-, social-, and governance-related indicators to ...

ESG, or the environmental, social, and corporate governance guidelines set forth by asset managers such as BlackRock, is a refuge for charlatans. The guidelines broadly refer to the goal of achieving ...

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have come to the forefront of investment practices over the years. However, a critical concern for investors is the lack of quantitative standards in ...