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 ...

In November 2020, the Loan Market Association (LMA) and the European Leveraged Finance Association (ELFA) published the Best Practice Guide for Term Sheet Completeness (Best Practice Guide) in an ...

As we have noted in our previous report, environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have garnered significant attention from a variety of stakeholders, resulting in increased reporting by many ...

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 ...

As the demand for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information increases, related opportunities for CPAs involved in financial reporting and auditing continue to grow. Investors are showing ...

One of the main criticisms leveled against ESG investing is that the movement is all talk, no action. The main reason for this is that there simply aren’t enough entrepreneurs providing adequately ESG ...

As the concerns over climate change, depletion of natural resources (i.e., deforestation and water scarcity), and health and safety issues are reaching new levels, there has been growing sentiment ...

Opinion: Campaigns to discredit ESG may be morphing from being a questionable policy position to attorneys toeing the line of ...

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, ...

For nearly five decades, we have been a leader in responsible investing, a discipline that incorporates the consideration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into investment research ...