In 2025 the American model of corporate governance entered a new phase.After a decade in which environmental, social and governance (ESG) activism had gained influence through proxy votes and investor engagement, recent regulatory and political shifts have sharply reduced shareholder leverage. The Securities and Exchange...
Context Since the murder of George Floyd and the rise of the Black-lives-matter movement in 2020, the US has witnessed the uptake of DEI policies, DEI-linked executive pay compensation plans and increased affirmative action recruiting in large companies such as Microsoft, Apple, and Costco. Pressure has...
Introduction Since the murder of George Floyd and the rise of the Black-lives-matter movement in 2020, the US has witnessed the uptake of DEI policies, DEI-linked executive pay compensation plans and increased affirmative action recruiting in large companies such as Microsoft, Apple, and Costco. Pressure has...
The escalation of Israel’s military operations in Gaza and the continued expansion of settlements in the West Bank have brought renewed scrutiny of corporate involvement in these territories. However, the overall ESG investor response cannot be described as a full-scale sector-wide shift. Instead, what has...
It is a sad Luna Park that has been started around the video game company GameStop: an initial simplistic "David versus Goliath" narrative, or in this case "millennial traders versus Wall Street hedge funds" has been replaced by a much less exciting reality and has...
Despite the worldwide increase in ESG and sustainable investments, in the USA we are assisting to a great deterrence against ESG policies reviving the old objection they provide low returns, which has not been supported by the facts. In the last decade, a fundamental shift towards sustainable...
Evidence demonstrates that investors' behaviours change when the largest proxy advisory firm downgrades public companies' rating on governance ground. Professor Paul M. Guest and PhD student Marco Nerino of King's Business School at King's College London empirically demonstrate that Institutional Shareholder Services' (ISS) announcement of corporate...
Next year at Apple’ s annual meeting, shareholders will vote a non-binding resolution for transparency over human rights policies. On 9 September 2019, SumOfUs, a consumer advocacy group, submitted the proposal claiming that the US tech company had limited individual freedom of expression kowtowing to China's will, which...
https://www.euromoney.com/article/b1dx148qjztwp3/why-private-capital-will-dominate-markets-for-the-decades-to-comeScepticism over capital markets is on the rise. It is leading more and more investors to turn to the powerful and growing private equity industry. As a result, companies tend to stay private for longer swelling private equity market five times in the last two...