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Navigating a Minefield: Difficulties in Today’s Environment and How CFOs Can Avoid Danger

IR Consulting

Between international conflict, energy shortages, inflation, interest rate hikes, and volatile commodity prices, business leaders (especially CFOs) are trying to keep up with a whirlwind of variables impacting market conditions. To help, we’ve summarized the key factors impacting today’s macro...

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The Trillion-Dollar Problem No Company Can Afford to Ignore: Why CFOs Must Take Their Spots on the Front Lines of Climate Risk Assessment

ESG Communication

Risk management is nothing new to CFOs. As stewards of the Company’s financial health, these executives have long been responsible for managing, assessing, and mitigating different types of risk—including financial, operational, and geo-political threats—and for using risk analytics and risk...

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2022 Materiality Checklist for Software and Service Companies: 4 Topics to Focus on First

ESG Communication

Following a thorough review from our team, we created a short-list of E&S topics that are most important to investors right now. We considered our most recent Software and Services materiality studies, investor surveys, and a review of the public...

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2022 Materiality Checklist for Retailers: 4 Topics to Focus on First

ESG Communication

ESG has never been more important to retailers than it is today. With the SEC handing out mandates, investors asking more questions about more topics, and consumers and employees wanting to know everything there is to know about a company’s...

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Fed Policy Warrants a Change in the Way Companies Message to Investors

IR Consulting

The Fed can pull many strings. The U.S. Federal Reserve monitors and guides the growth rate of the economy. It has a dual mandate: to keep prices steady and to keep unemployment low. To achieve both objectives, the Fed works...

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Global Conflict Depresses Short-Term Outlook, But Clouds May Be Parting

IR Consulting

The now-wrapped Q4 2021 earnings season was marked by outperformance to close the calendar year, but real concerns as analysts look to 2022. Most companies (77% to be exact) beat their EPS guidance. However, Q1 2022 outlooks are down across...

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Hey, CFOs—Here’s What the SEC’s Proposed Climate Rule Means for You

General

Three days ago, the SEC made it clear that CFOs and management teams should be taking action to not only manage, but also to price climate risk. Similar to traditional financial reporting, climate-related risk reporting is complex and cannot be...

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The SEC Has Spoken: Proposed Climate Change Disclosure Rules Are A CFO Game Changer

General

Yesterday, the SEC unveiled its long-anticipated proposed climate risk disclosure rules. As expected, the implications are significant, and the proposal is clearly aligned with Larry Fink’s call for portfolio companies to report aligned with TCFD. Under the rule, companies must...

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Proposed SEC Rule Tells Corporates to Step Up Their Cybersecurity Game

General

Written by the Clermont Partners ESG Team The SEC’s proposed rule on Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance, and Incident Disclosure will amend the current interpretive guidance regarding disclosure of cybersecurity risks and incidents that were originally issued in 2011 and...

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Investor Relations Meets The Matrix: Is AI the Future of Earnings Analysis?

IR Consulting

Anyone who has read the news, bought a product, or looked at a billboard in the last five years knows that artificial intelligence (AI) is, without a doubt, the newest technology of interest in all facets of life. It’s literally...

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To CDP or Not to CDP? An Overview of CDP’s 2022 Climate Change Updates

ESG Communication

Each year, CDP releases annual revisions and developments to its questionnaires to reflect and drive best practice, improving both data quality and the disclosure experience for companies. Their 2022 Updates were recently released for the Climate Change, Forests, and Water...

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Clermont Partners Joins CDP as an Accredited Solutions Provider

Press Releases

Chicago IL – February 23, 2022 – Clermont Partners, LLC (“Clermont”), a leading environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy and communications firm, today announced it has gained accreditation by CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) into its network of service...

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