Governance and stewardship news

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said the US is ready to rejoin the fight against climate change “after sitting on the sidelines for four years”.

A coalition of almost 200 US shareholder groups has launched a campaign to overthrow new SEC rules that they claim are an “an attack on corporate democracy”.

The financial services sector needs to “rethink our prescriptive approach” to environmental and societal problems, according to a leading US regulator.

The move to shift the setting of proxy fees by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to broker-dealer regulatory body Financial Industry Authority (FINRA) is continuing to develop as an SEC consultation period ended last week (14 April).

The number of shareholder resolutions on diversity at US companies has soared this year in the wake of the Black Lives Matter campaign.

Today, on Earth Day 2021 (22/04/2021), the world is talking about how we can 'Restore Our Earth'. To help you navigate the oncoming stream of information around this year's Earth Day theme, Minerva has released a new background briefing looking at how biodiversity can be integrated into investor stewardship.

The Charity Commission has re-issued guidance to charity trustees to end confusion over expectations for ethical or responsible investment.

NORGES to accelerating its #ESG agenda and plans to cut thousands of companies from its sovereign wealth fund and proposals to force disclosures by Norwegian businesses on human rights.

The UK government has peddled back on its clampdown on foreign takeovers of British firms, raising the threshold at which such deals would face government scrutiny.

Investors caught by geo-political ESG risks as China Xinjiang tensions escalate

Fourty three new asset managers have joined the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. Signatories managers commit to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner

Sen Toomey demands answers as SEC says goodbye to Trump-era ESG regulation plans