Joe Keefe, who has led the group and its precursor since 2005, will be replaced by Ed Farrington, the group's head of distribution.
More than half of US asset managers see ESG as a high priority, and many are adding staff to support that.
'We do it in a way where they're virtually unreadable,' Eric Noll, CEO of Context Capital Partners, said of disclosures at the Finra annual meeting.
The watchdog agency teed up a sweeping proposal in March 2022 intended to standardize the types of disclosures public companies make about greenhouse gas reduction goals.
The Republican AGs are examining net-zero goals that insurance companies have agreed to as part of an industry group.
The agreement would move efforts forward on calculating and disclosing the carbon footprints of the industry’s capital-markets operations.
An analysis tool on its Invest Your Values site gives participants a peek into the exposure their plans have.
The four ETFs consist of passive and factor-based exposures managed by Envestnet and active exposures managed by third-party investment managers.
Few companies have goals in place that would reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in line with Paris goals, according to MSCI.
Plaintiffs claim the three pension funds breached their fiduciary duty when they sold roughly $4 billion in fossil-fuel investments in 2021.
Representatives took jabs at the other party and expressed opposing views on the potential of ESG.
Fifty years after the passage of ERISA, the insurance industry has come to the rescue with solutions that allow retirement plans to address the problem of decumulation.
New data on 17,000 companies is available using a methodology developed in conjunction with the UN Environment Programme.
At least one critic of the newfangled REITs is not convinced they can weather the storm in commercial real estate.
Just 58 sustainable exchange-traded funds launched globally in the first quarter, down from 101 that were introduced during the same period last year.
State pension professionals argued against it, saying the legislation would limit investment considerations.
'It's sort of like the nicest house on an ugly block, which, relatively speaking, is the best place to be,' said one advisor.
The 'anti-woke' crowd found a boogeyman in Anheuser-Busch just as it has with ESG broadly.
One of the nation’s largest banks experienced a series of governance lapses that resulted in the mismanagement of interest-rate risk.
History is on the side of sitting on the sidelines from May through October, but advisors say investing is not that simple.
