ESG Archive

Close to half the companies monitored by a major investor initiative on climate change have announced a target to hit net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as corporate action on global warming gathers pace.  Climate Action 100+ (CA 100), which is backed by 545 investor signatories managing a total of around $52 trillion in assets, engages with the 100 biggest greenhouse gas emitters and a further 60 companies it views as key to tackling climate change. ...

The legal team at Coeur Mining is proud of the evolution its proxy statement has gone through since 2015. Last year the company won the best proxy statement award in the small-cap category, and this year it takes home the same award in the mid-cap category. In recent years, Coeur’s proxy statement has been emblazoned with the firm's miss...

How many people make up the Federated Hermes engagement and responsible investing team? We have more than 60 global team members deployed across engagement, stewardship and our responsibility office. How long have you worked for Federated Hermes, and in which roles? I joined Federated Hermes in 2008 and was an equity portfolio manager and vice president prior to my current role as director of the responsible investing ...

Diversity and inclusion will feature prominently in the thinking of many corporate leaders and investors in 2021. That means corporate secretaries and general counsel will have an important role to play in advising boards, finding candidates and devising disclosures that will help shape narratives on a key set of issues. The protest movement sparked by the disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on people of color and the deaths of African Americans at the ...