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Weekly Roundup: November 8-14, 2024
Shareholder Activism under Donald Trump Posted by Kai H. E. Liekefett and Derek Zaba, Sidley Austin LLP, on Friday, November 8, 2024 Tags: Donald Trump, Hedge funds, investors, Shareholder activism The State of Sustainability in 2024: DEI Will Survive Posted by Rose James, Lisa R. Davis, and Faten Alqaseer, Teneo, on Saturday, November 9, 2024 […]
Click here to read the complete postThe Impact of Say-on-Pay on S&P 500 CEO Pay
The 2010 Dodd-Frank legislation mandated Say on Pay (SOP) votes aimed at lowering CEO Pay that was deemed as too high and reducing excessive risk-taking due to executive incentives. In this Viewpoint, we explore CEO pay trends in the post Dodd-Frank Era; key takeaways include: Our updated SOP research finds that CEO pay has continued […]
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Tagged CEOs, Dodd-Frank, S&P 500, Say on pay
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What Companies Need to Know About California’s AB 1305
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act (AB 1305) into law on October 7, 2023, creating a novel disclosure requirement for entities that participate in the voluntary carbon offset market, or that make certain claims about their carbon dioxide or greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions. While California’s other brand-new climate reporting laws, […]
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Tagged California, emissions, GHG, VCOs
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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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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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