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Author Archives: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
Remarks by Chair Gensler at the Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation
Thank you. It’s good to join the Annual Conference on Financial Market Regulation once again alongside my SEC colleagues, including Chief Economist Jessica Wachter and Commissioner Allison Herren Lee. The field of economic research is central to our work at the SEC. It helps shape every aspect of our policymaking, from the early design phase […]
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Posted in Accounting & Disclosure, Practitioner Publications, Regulators Materials, Securities Regulation, Speeches & Testimony
Tagged Accountability, Capital markets, Cybersecurity, Disclosure, Risk, Securities enforcement, Securities regulation, Systemic risk
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Assessing ESG-Labeled Bonds
Increasingly, today’s fixed-income market presents unique opportunities for responsible investing in the form of environmental, social and governance (ESG) labeled bonds. These relative newcomers to the market can give their corporate, sovereign or securitized issuers a welcome ESG halo and could even lower their cost of debt by attracting new investors. In turn, investors are […]
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Posted in ESG, Institutional Investors, Practitioner Publications
Tagged Bonds, Climate change, ESG, Greenwashing, Institutional Investors, Sustainability
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Weekly Roundup: April 29-May 5, 2022
Stark Choices for Corporate Reform Posted by Aneil Kovvali (University of Chicago), on Friday, April 29, 2022 Tags: Climate change, Corporate purpose, ESG, Governance reform, Shareholder primacy, Stakeholders, Sustainability Remarks by Commissioner Crenshaw at Virtual Roundtable on the Future of Going Public and Expanding Investor Opportunities Posted by Caroline A. Crenshaw, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, on Friday, April 29, 2022 Tags: Capital formation, Direct listings, IPOs, Mergers […]
Click here to read the complete postESG During the 2022 AGM Season
While the eyes of the world are on the Russia-Ukraine war, and while companies the world over are grappling with the fallout, the 2022 AGM and proxy season is quietly getting underway. ESG is now, without question, a mainstream lens through which companies are viewed and assessed by investors. AGMs have become firmly established as […]
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Posted in Corporate Elections & Voting, Institutional Investors, Practitioner Publications
Tagged Climate change, Diversity, Engagement, ESG, Institutional Investors, Shareholder meetings, Shareholder voting, Sustainability
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Where Nonprofits Incorporate and Why It Matters
Delaware’s dominance in the race for publicly traded company incorporations is well known. Its success in attracting other types of entities, however, is less understood but no less important. In my paper Where Nonprofits Incorporate and Why It Matters, I study the incorporation behavior of nonprofits, a trillion dollar industry that employs twelve million people […]
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Posted in Academic Research, Comparative Corporate Governance & Regulation, Empirical Research
Tagged Corporate forms, Delaware law, Incorporations, Jurisdiction, Nonprofits, Stakeholders, State law
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How to Focus the Company Around ESG Priorities
Before an organization can link executive compensation to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, it must establish methodologies for identifying material ESG risks and opportunities and board oversight. Once top ESG risks and strategic opportunities have been identified, a company will need to focus action on the key issues. From the board’s perspective, this will […]
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Posted in Boards of Directors, Corporate Social Responsibility, ESG, Executive Compensation, Institutional Investors
Tagged Boards of Directors, Climate change, Corporate culture, Diversity, ESG, Institutional Investors, Stakeholders, Sustainability
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SEC Gag Orders are Against Public Policy
Identity and Interest of Amici Curiae Amici are Mark Cuban, Phillip Goldstein, Elon Musk, Nelson Obus, and Investor Choice Advocates Network (“ICAN”). Each of the individual amici is a sophisticated businessperson and investor who has publicly litigated against the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). ICAN is a nonprofit, public interest law firm working […]
Click here to read the complete postThe EU Taxonomy Traffic Light
Regulation (EU) 2020/852 (the “Taxonomy”) in 2020 established an EU-wide framework for classification of economic activity as environmentally sustainable (or “green”). This framework is intended to provide businesses and investors with a standardized understanding to identify sustainable financial products and investments. The ultimate purpose of the Taxonomy is to direct capital flows towards green activities, […]
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Posted in ESG, International Corporate Governance & Regulation, Practitioner Publications, Securities Regulation
Tagged Climate change, Environmental disclosure, ESG, EU, Europe, International governance, Sustainability
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