Featured Insights

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  UN Investor Summit Highlights
  The storyline emerging from this year's conference was the pressing need for companies to be proactive in engaging with investors.
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  BlackRock's Engagement Priorities
  BlackRock's new engagement priorities address traditional areas of investor engagement such as governance, strategy and compensation alongside developing areas like climate risk and human capital management.
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  Investors Want to Engage on Sustainability-Are you Prepared?
  The rise of sustainability as a governance imperative is inextricably tied to the growing influence of large institutional investors, particularly index funds, and the governance teams within them.
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  Panel Talks Sustainability in Business, Effects of Climate Change
  The Erb Institute, a collaboration between the Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability, hosted an event to discuss how businesses can promote sustainability in their work
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  CEO Chad Spitler Responds to Challenges in Applying SEC Names Rule
  Letter submitted to the SEC to address the challenges raised in applying the Names Rule to the use of the term ESG in fund names.
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  CEO Chad Spitler Discusses a Department of Labor’s Proposed Rule Change
  CEO response to a Department of Labor proposed rule change affecting ESG investment funds.
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  Optimizing Your ESG Strategy and Disclosure in 2021
  Learn how companies like successfully defined their ESG goals and objectives, implemented the resulting strategy and effectively positioned their ESG program with institutional investors and other stakeholders.
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  Investing for Global Development
  Our newest VIA3 rating is focused on global equity and this month’s webinar on how fund managers align their portfolios with the UNSDG’s. This conversation, rather than a technical look at how a fund comes together, will be a look forward at the changes these funds are making in the world. Thursday January 21st, 10 am PT.
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  SEC comment letter: Public Input on Climate Change Disclosures
  Third Economy encouraged the SEC to leverage existing ESG and climate standards as developed by SASB, CDP and TCFD to be disclosed in integrated annual reports through a comply or explain framework.