NEW - Today US #financial regulators told ExxonMobil it could proceed with a plan to let mom-and-pop investors vote with management, a factor in #ESG battles. Our latest for @reuters.com herewith. How might this impact voting outcomes? DMs welcome - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Companies since 2020 have added more details about the race, ethnicity and gender of their boardrooms, but the trends reversed this year amid anti-DEI pressure from #Trump and other factors. Here's my writeup for my @reuters.com #sustainablefinance newsletter - tinyurl.com/3sf6hwu8

For this week's @reuters.com #sustainablefinance newsletter I followed up on news from State Street Global Advisors - famous for its #FearlessGirl statue - that it was dropping #boardroom #diversity targets in its latest #ESG stewardship guidelines. Story herewith - www.reuters.com/markets/us/f...

New #DEI news for @Reuters - Fearless Girl' statue sponsor State Street drops boardroom diversity targets - www.reuters.com/business/fin...

The Trump White House sent termination notices to at least some US Attorneys around the country who had been appointed by Democratic President Joe Biden, according to an excerpt of the email reviewed by Reuters reut.rs/4jUiRK6

New take on things from @nyccomptroller.bsky.social , who has been reading his @timothysnyder.bsky.social - www.reuters.com/world/us/nyc...

New news from ISS could have a major impact on corporate #DEI policies - ISS ends diversity considerations for US boardrooms, citing Trump orders - www.reuters.com/business/fin...

New - #Vanguard is tweaking its #diversity #proxyvoting policies for U.S. corporate #boardrooms, a sign of the shifting dynamics of corporate #DEI efforts now under attack from the #Trump administration. Here's our @reuters.com ters story - www.reuters.com/world/us/van...

New from late yesterday, #Costco investors strongly rejected a call for a review of #DEI efforts. It was a counter-message as other companies roll back DEI efforts. @reuters.com story - Costco shareholders reject call for review of diversity programs - www.reuters.com/business/ret...

My @reuters.com #sustainablefinance column tracks #DonaldTrump #corpgov -related actions like his #RTO mandate. In Boston, Trillium's CEO has a different idea to bring back workers. Being in a super-luxe workspace doesn't hurt. Newsletter signup link in comments. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

New from us - #BlackRock settles #Tennessee #ESG lawsuit with new #corpgov disclosures - www.reuters.com/business/fin...

U.S. companies have been in retreat mode from #DEI efforts, but their shareholders haven't really weighed in on what they want to happen. That's about to change as #AGM season gets going like at #Deere. Read more in my @reuters.com #sustainablefinance column here - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Good roundup of a bad situation by my colleagues. Thoughts to you #LA friends and colleagues - www.reuters.com/markets/us/l...

New news about an investor #climate group pausing its efforts after #blackrock dropped out last week - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

For my @reuters.com #sustainablefinance column this week I looked at the #ESG topics that will determine the balance of power among shareholders, corporate leaders and politicians, such as whether #assetmanagers will face new restrictions and #CEO pay. What else? tinyurl.com/a2zzvt7z

I meant to post this #healtchare and #ESG story yesterday about #unitedhealth - www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Alexander Smirnov, a former FBI informant who admitted to lying about US President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s interactions with a Ukrainian energy company, was sentenced to six years in prison, court records showed reut.rs/4h6wvHP

Massachusetts & Michigan remain the only two states where the governor claims to be completely exempt from public records laws, after time ran out to pass a bill in Michigan. #FOIA www.freep.com/story/news/p...

A new anti- #ESG effort ahead of the 2025 proxy season - read up via @Reuters.com - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Like most companies #BlackRock's clients have a spectrum of views on #climate and other #ESG matters. For my @reuters.com column this week I took a look at the competing pressures on BlackRock coming from #Indiana's pension system vs @scottishwidows.bsky.social www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Congressional #Republicans say top fund firms and activists are part of a #climate cartel. Firms deny wrongdoing, but new material shows companies like #BlackRock and #StateStreet at least worried about appearing too cozy with groups like #ceres. #esg #corpgov www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

For young Iowans, may you find elected officials like Jim Leach in your future. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...

#california's giant public pension fund @calpers.bsky.social has some cautions about #climatefinance valuations, which its CEO shared with me for this week's @reuters.com #sustainablefinance newsletter. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

This @nytimes.com column from 1978 shows how a top Washington official's drinking was treated at the time. "(The official White House transcript puts the “woo‐woo” in quotations.)" www.nytimes.com/1978/02/23/a...

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused of gunning down UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson in the streets of Manhattan, yells as he enters a Pennsylvania court for a hearing on whether to extradite him to New York to face murder charges there reut.rs/3BmLdLw

Through the journalistic lens almost anybody with a pulse looks "fiery," write Tim Noah in the New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/1885...

The ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shattered Iran's network of influence in the Middle East but Israel, the US and Arab powers must now deal with the risk of instability and extremism from the mosaic of forces that replaces him reut.rs/4gtLv2h 1/12

Big asset managers have been getting routine approvals from the #U.S. #energy regulator, but things could be different this time b/c of #environmental and #competition concerns. My latest @reuters.com #sustinablefinance column here - www.reuters.com/markets/us/f...

6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

Elton John told an audience in London he had lost his sight after struggling to recover from an eye infection. In a speech from the Dominion Theatre at the end of the show, he said the performance sounded good, but he had not been able to watch it reut.rs/4eZARPF

World markets head for reality check after month of Trump - www.reuters.com/markets/glob...

Elon Musk has been using his social media platform X to go to bat for President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks and promote his own preferred candidates, advocating for choices he views as change agents. But not all of his endorsements have lasted reut.rs/3Vavi9M

Everyone wants more #shareholder #democracy in theory. But in practice it could complicate corporate #proxyvoting, executives worry. My latest for @reuters.com #ESG #corpgov - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

In which my @reuters.com colleague explains Bessent's performance - www.reuters.com/business/fin...

New - Investors are on track to withdraw more money from global #climate funds than they deposit this year for the first time, #Morningstar Sustainalytics said on Thursday, presenting an obstacle to #energy-transition efforts. My @reuters.com story herewith - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Hello #Bluesky! For my first post - Investor Ross Gerber talks to @rosskerber.bsky.social about #X and Gerber's disillusion with the platform where a big follower base once helped sharpen his investment ideas. My @reuters.com column here- lnkd.in/eGTCJ-Wp and newsletter signup - lnkd.in/eXWpCMDe