Author name: ubaid ansari

This article—the first in a series on DEI in investing—examines how investment committees and boards can oversee DEI. Read more about nine expert recommendations for DEI governance in three categories: DEI at the investment committee, public DEI disclosure, and DEI in governance and legal documents

Setting and supporting climate commitments is not enough. Targets must reduce climate risk in the real world. A comprehensive solution includes focusing capital on investments with the greatest potential to increase energy efficiency and reduce emissions, climate SPACs, and effective executive comp

IFRS Foundation, which governs financial reporting in more than 140 countries, took a giant step toward comprehensive sustainability disclosure requirements for the global financial markets. What will be expected of your company, and how can you shape those expectations?

Institutional investors interested in DEI have both cause for cautious optimism and peers who are worthy of emulation. What can investors who seek to advance DEI learn from trailblazing investors Kellogg and Kresge Foundations and University of California’s and Georgetown’s investment offices?

For long-term investors, ensuring that investment decisions consider the impact of climate change on long-term value is critical for fulfilling fiduciary duty. Here’s what you can do to not only climate-proof your investment portfolio, but also to help meet the climate change challenge.

Regulators are homing in on the most important intangible assets: people. Investors have struggled without standardized human capital disclosure to measure the contribution of human capital to corporate strategy and performance. The SEC is trying to help.

The conventional wisdom that distressed investing is incompatible with ESG is wrong: distressed lenders and sponsors are increasingly incorporating ESG into investment decisions. They are also harnessing restructuring to drive sustainability and inclusion and with it long-term value creation.

The 2021 proxy season reflects rising importance of sustainability and inclusion to investors with a quantum leap in the support for ESG shareholder proposals at large investors. Three investors have also filed a lawsuit to overturn Trump era SEC rule changes that limit the rights of small investors

As the transition to a sustainable economy accelerates, the time has come for a universal concept of materiality that spans asset classes. Read about the equities bias in ESG frameworks, as well as considerations for committing capital to, engaging with, and monitoring investments in fixed income

This article, the third in a series on sustainability-related intangibles, highlights leading practices and development areas in corporate and investor executive compensation ESG targets.