Sustainable investing-focused mutual funds and exchange-traded funds suffered a severe beating in 2024, producing record outflows, a record number of discontinued ESG mandates and a record number ...

Over the past 18 months, the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) agenda has suffered setbacks in corporate DEI programs, declining investment dollars, and the collapse of the Net-Zero ...

NEW YORK -- Chinese two-way-radio company Hytera Communications has admitted conspiring to steal walkie-talkie-related trade secrets from U.S.-headquartered Motorola Solutions. Hytera pleaded ...

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing is quite controversial now, with a lot of conservative critics. And so Judge O’Connor was naturally asked to declare that it is a violation ...

The global outlook for ESG is at a crossroads. The re-election of Donald Trump and Republican sweep of Congress signal that significant retrenchment lies ahead. At the same time, the EU is moving ...

The European Commission will examine the CSRD, CSDDD, and EU Taxonomy to reduce red tape and condense reporting obligations in an ‘Omnibus package’ expected by the end of February. At The Budapest ...

A federal judge in one of the country’s most conservative district courts ruled Friday that American Airlines unlawfully incorporated environmental and sustainable governance (ESG) factors into ...

In other words, investing a 401(k) retirement plan to reflect ESG interests--rather than strictly financial ones--constitutes a breach of the fiduciary duty of loyalty. (Notably, despite this ...

Plaintiffs in the first lawsuit over ESG in a 401(k) just saw a victory that could have enormous implications for asset managers and retirement plans. In a long-awaited decision issued Friday ...

ERISA litigation often equates the fiduciary duties of prudence and loyalty — but a federal judge has drawn a distinction in a controversial case involving ESG. Participant-plaintiff (and pilot) Bryan ...

Tesla founder Elon Musk made his stance on environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings unmistakably clear in June 2023 when he posted “ESG is the devil” on his social media platform ...

Six of the largest US lenders have left a United Nations-convened climate banking alliance amid rising political opposition to corporate ESG initiatives in the US. JP Morgan was the latest to ...