Ceres offers a set of nine recommendations “to guide companies toward more meaningful and effective investor engagement on ESG issues.” What is the key message?
The proposed rules, which would implement a requirement mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, would provide greater transparency and allow shareholders to be better informed when they vote to elect directors and in connection with advisory votes on executive compensation
New technologies and innovations in the capital markets will be needed to address this global crisis – but we are not hearing anything on behalf of the world’s largest regulator on this topic. This also includes human capital data disclosure by companies including gender pay and pay ratio data including composition of boards of directors.
The rules will be based on a “comply-or-explain” approach — if an investor does not comply with the rules they need to provide an explanation as to why
Yesterday at a summit of central bank governors in Amsterdam -- the governor of the Bank of England warned that climate change could have a "catastrophic impact" on the global financial system
With the recent news that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a feedback statement setting out the use of Inline XBRL as the digital format which public companies in the European Union (EU) must use to report their company information to investors worldwide from...
US SEC Chair Jay Clayton Urged US Public Companies to Disclosure Human Capital Data on February 6, 2019 : “Today, human capital and intellectual property often represent an essential resource and driver of performance for many companies