The certificate focuses on analyzing ESG factors and integrating them into portfolios. It also provides ESG fluency for people working in functions such as sales and distribution, wealth management, product development, financial advice, consulting and risk.
Acting SEC Chair Allison Herren Lee suggested the agency should consider new policies and procedures regarding ESG for investment advisers. The agency is evaluating how a disclosure framework can be flexible enough to keep up with the latest market and scientific developments.
The agency must be nimble in keeping up with an increasingly popular and rapidly evolving issue.
Calvert and American Century bring home overall fund company awards, and a record 21 funds sweep their categories.
The two rules were among the most heavily contested measures instituted by the DOL under former Secretary Eugene Scalia, with the 401(k) rule drawing nearly 9,000 public comments, most of which opposed it.
The International Organization of Securities Commissions plans to propose sustainability disclosure standards that could serve as the basis for national requirements.
Michelle Dunstan runs an unusual fund within AllianceBernstein’s ESG investment platform. She explains how it complements the asset manager’s other funds.
The GOP commission member said the agency should provide guidance before bringing enforcement cases
The move is the latest effort by the agency to emphasize oversight of sustainability disclosure and investing. The commission's Republican members raise questions about the flurry of climate activity.
The industry is nowhere near settled on a common vernacular. The ESG space needs more clarity and writing off greenwashing is not helping anyone.
The agency is 'integrating climate and ESG considerations into [its] broader regulatory framework,' Acting Chair Allison Herren Lee says.
The campaigner who was instrumental in pushing BlackRock to act against climate change is now taking aim at Vanguard Group.
Co-founders of the RIA Rachel Robasciotti and Maya Philipson will not work with clients at Abacus and will largely spend time managing their ETF. The firm reported $130 million in assets under management.
The focus on the climate and finance at the hearing likely was a harbinger of the priority the SEC will place on environmental, social and governance investing under Gensler. But Reg BI was ignored.
New York-based Cornerstone Capital Group specializes in sustainable investing.
Donor advised funds can be used to support increasingly popular impact investing.
The agency's corporate finance group will focus on climate in their reviews of corporate filings, the regulator announced Wednesday.
The product will initially be distributed by four Black-owned banks, and JPMorgan will share the assets and fees generated with those banks.
Walsh says he will tell EBSA to reexamine the regulation, which an expert says has led to ESG products being taken off of retirement plan platforms.
The funds are the first ETFs to track the environmental, social and governance versions of the indexes. The DWS suite of ESG ETFs come with a tracking error of about one percentage point.
