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ESG Investing Clearly Serves Pecuniary Interests

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Corporate Environmental and Social Impacts Affect the Broader Economy When a company’s problems create volatility in the price of its assets, investors term the problems as “idiosyncratic risks.” Another level of risk affects the volatility of an entire portfolio. Robinson, 2019. January 25, 2022). 34] 29 U.S.C. 1104(a)(1)(C).

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Pay for Prudence

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Armstrong and Vashishtha (2012)​ show that equity risk-taking incentives lead managers to pursue strategies that expose their firms to systematic risk, which they can hedge, and not idiosyncratic risk, which they cannot hedge, and ​Armstrong et al. 2019​; ​Granja et al., Coles et al. 2009​; ​Berger et al.,

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Are European and American Approaches to Sustainable Corporate Governance All That Different?

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The latter – establishing a framework to promote sustainable investments and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 – contains, by contrast, a specific classification system of economic activities that can be defined as sustainable. 17, Regulation (UE) 2019/2088. [2] 17, Regulation (UE) 2019/2088. [2] and EU legal systems.

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Unbundling Climate Change Risk from ESG

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This is because mitigating climate change risk reduces systematic risk across a portfolio of diversified investments. The disruptions associated with various realizations of climate change risk will spread across the entire economy and thus across a diversified stock portfolio; climate change risk is systematic.

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Shadow SEC: The Value of an Independent SEC

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Regulatory changes introduce uncertainty, and their effects are further confounded by the ever-present unpredictability of markets even known variations, whether from unpredictability in inflation and interest rates driven by the Fed, or the basic requirements for capital-raising and deployment set by the SEC equate to risk.