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Author Archives: Tarik Samman
2024 Top 250 Report
INTRODUCTION This Top 250 Report details executive long-term incentive practices at the 250 largest companies by market capitalization, with special focus on trends over the last five years. The past five years have shown that company performance and plan payouts can be influenced by a number of factors such as stock price volatility, regulatory updates, […]
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Tagged CEOs, Executive Compensation, Incentives, TSR
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Carbon Returns across the Globe
The pricing of carbon transition risk is a key question as investors consider climate-aware investments. Accurate risk pricing can support climate change mitigation, potentially reducing the need for heavy-handed government intervention. In theory, brown firms are more exposed to the transition and policy risk and should earn higher expected returns in equilibrium. However, green firms […]
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Posted in Academic Research
Tagged carbon emissions, Climate, climate investing, investors
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Corporate Political Activity Disclosures: A Continued Priority for Investors and Companies
For much of the past two decades, transparency regarding corporate political activities has been a key issue in corporate engagements with investors. Over the past decade, shareholder proposals focused on political activity transparency have consistently ranked the highest in volume among proposals submitted at U.S. companies, outpacing all other environmental and social categories, including those […]
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Tagged corporate disclosure, investors, Political spending, Transparency
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Recent Action Shows SEC Enforcement Still Focused on ESG
A recent Viewpoints article discussed the disbanding of the Climate and ESG Task Force (the “ESG Task Force”) in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC’s”) Division of Enforcement, which had formed in early 2021 under then-Acting Chair Allison Lee and continued under Chair Gary Gensler. That Viewpoints article encouraged clients to continue to consider their ESG-related […]
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Tagged Advisers Act, ESG, Funds, SEC
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2025 SEC Division of Examinations Priorities
Key Takeaways: On October 21, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) Division of Examinations (the “Division”) released its 2025 Examination Priorities (the “Priorities”). The Priorities provide insight into the products, practices, and services the Division views as presenting heightened risk to investors or capital markets and will focus on in its future […]
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Tagged Cyber-risk, Investment advisers, Regulations, SEC
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The State of Sustainability in 2024: DEI Will Survive
Annual sustainability reports remain a critical platform for companies to articulate their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) progress and objectives. We conducted an in-depth analysis of DEI disclosures to understand how they evolved in 2024. Our research included many of the topics being attacked by anti-DEI activists, such as goals, talent programs aimed at specific […]
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Tagged dei, Diversity, ESG, Sustainability
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Shareholder Activism under Donald Trump
After Donald Trump’s stunning electoral victory, the question is what this means for shareholder activism. Numerous activist investors openly endorsed Trump for president in 2024 and donated tens of millions of dollars and more to his campaign and related political action committees.[1] While not all activist investors supported Trump, at this year’s Active-Passive Investor Summit, […]
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Weekly Roundup: November 1-7, 2024
Hail to the (Returning) Chief Posted by Riyaz Lalani and Dan Gagnier, Gagnier Communications, on Friday, November 1, 2024 Tags: Activism, Activist, CEOs, Shareholders What Chief Sustainability Officers Are Thinking Posted by Martha Carter, Kensey Biggs, and Heidi Park, Teneo, on Saturday, November 2, 2024 Tags: Climate, CSOs, ESG, Sustainability The Case for Multigenerational Corporate […]
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