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ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up?

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First, on December 17th, 2019, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce went on live television to call for greater oversight of how ESG is used by companies and the investment community. “The By that time, more than $17 billion had been invested into sustainable-focused ETFs and open-end funds during 2019. Do ESG programs impact firm value?

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What the Rise of Indexing Means for Corporate Governance

Reynolds Holding

Fisch, Hamdani, and Solomon, 2019; Sharfman, 2022). Hirst (2019). Keim (2019). Do Exogenous Changes in Passive Institutional Ownership Affect Corporate Governance and Firm Value? We therefore conclude our paper by discussing several directions for future research in this area. ENDNOTES. [1] 1] E.g., Bebchuk, L.

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Do Meritless Whistleblower Claims Hurt Companies and Shareholders?

Reynolds Holding

Further, regardless of their merit, whistleblower claims may alert auditors and directors to the risk of potential misconduct, prompting them to spend more effort monitoring the firm’s financial reporting. Consistent with prior literature, we find a negative effect of meritorious whistleblower claims on firm value.

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The Uncertain Role of Institutional Investors in Promoting Corporate Diversity

Reynolds Holding

3] One empirical paper reports that engagement by the Big Three asset managers alone “led firms to add 2.5 times as many female directors in 2019 as they did in 2016,” accounting for at least a third to two-thirds of the “percentage of all public company board seats held by women…between 2016 and 2019.” [4]

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A Follow up on Inflation: The Disparate Effects on Company Values!

Musings on Markets

Inflation and Value When in doubt about how any action or information plays out in value, I find it useful to go back to value basics, and trace out the effects of that action/information on value drivers.

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ESG Investing Clearly Serves Pecuniary Interests

Reynolds Holding

See also Au, Shiu-Yik and Dong, Ming and Tremblay, Andreanne, How Much Does Workplace Sexual Harassment Hurt Firm Value? Journal of Business Ethics, Available at SSRN: [link] [18] Paula Laier, “Vale stock plunges after Brazil disaster; $19 billion in market value lost,” January 28, 2019. Robinson, 2019.

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The ESG Movement: The "Goodness" Gravy Train Rolls On!

Musings on Markets

Applying this principle to ESG investing, the question of whether ESG-based investing pays off or not depends on not only whether you think ESG increases or decreases firm value, but also on whether the market has already priced in the impact.

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