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How to Respond to Buy-Side ESG Priorities in 2021

ESG Communication

In it’s Winter 2021 issue of IR Update magazine, published by the National Investor Relations Institute, Elizabeth Saunders wrote an article that discusses what buy-side investors are saying about how companies need to demonstrate their commitment to ESG. To download...

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Dear CEOs: The Clock Is Ticking - 4 Actions to Take Now in Response to the New BlackRock Letter

ESG Communication

Corporate executives tend to approach Larry Fink’s annual letter with some wariness. These notorious communications hit the mainstream when the BlackRock chairman somewhat controversially called for the end to short-term guidance and corporate “near-termism” in 2016. And Mr. Fink was...

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Show Me the Money: Navigating the New Transparency Requirements For Corporate Political Contributions

ESG Communication

It has been about two weeks since the riot at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. captured news headlines around the world. While the aftermath and consequences of the events that took place in the nation’s capital are largely still...

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Grey Is The New Black

ESG Communication

Take Advantage of the SEC’s ‘Wiggle Room’ to Build High-Impact Human Capital Disclosure In August, after years of pressure from large investors, the SEC revised the Reg S-K disclosure requirements to “modernize” the descriptions of business, legal proceedings, and risk...

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Making BlackRock’s “Nice List” Just Got A Lot More Challenging

General

BlackRock Investment Stewardship (BIS) released its 2021 Stewardship Expectations a bit earlier than anticipated, which may prove to be a useful gift for companies that need a jump on making the changes investors are expecting to see in the new...

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Better Not Cry: Reasonable Executive Compensation Changes May Be Tolerated. But Crocodile Tears Won’t Be.

COVID-19

In “normal” years, executive compensation plans rely upon metrics like sales and profit to determine short-term remuneration. However, 2020 has been anything but normal. With COVID-19 spreading like wildfire around the globe, everything from sports to the presidential election has...

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Prioritizing Diversity: 4 Keys to Building a Stronger Team

ESG Communication

The tragic events of the summer moved diversity issues into the spotlight, escalating the importance of this critical topic to an all-time high. The stakeholder response has been universal. The public, state legislators, corporations, investment firms, and ESG ratings agencies...

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Amending Board Committee Charters to Prevent Director No Votes

Proxy Advisory

Directors play a significant role as fiduciaries in overseeing ESG risk, and investors are increasingly interested in understanding how companies define this responsibility through Board structures and committee charters. Many large institutional investors gave issuers notice this year that from...

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ESG Investor Communications: Tying KPI’s to Your ESG Program

ESG Communication

With increased environmental and social disclosures in an environment that lacks standardization, investors must decipher between a robust ESG program and one that markets an image of environmental and social responsibility. Greenwashing is the corporate practice of spending more time...

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E&S Metrics in Executive Compensation: What do Investors Really Care About?

The investor landscape around E&S metrics in executive compensation programs is quickly evolving as institutions are pressured to set stricter, and more public, policies covering this formerly niche area, rating agencies are increasingly reporting on the use of E&S compensation...

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Investor Perspective on the Evolving ESG Landscape

Our team recently participated in two ESG investor events, Baird’s Investor Perspective on the Evolving ESG Landscape webcast and Q4’s ESG Panel, both in June of 2020. The following are interesting takeaways from both: ESG’s influence on investment management is...

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The 5 COVID-Related Questions Every CEO Needs to Ask Now

COVID-19

As we enter the calendar Q2 earnings cycle, more states are reopening while others are reporting surges and hot spots. The future is anything but crystalline. But investors are increasingly expecting more information. And they are not as willing as...

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