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Are the Big Three Asset Managers Beneficial Stewards or Corporate Overlords?

Reynolds Holding

The Big Three hold just over 20 percent of total market capitalization in the U.S. Interestingly, they hold at least 5 percent in 16 foreign markets, including Germany, France, Japan, and Brazil, and over 10 percent in three foreign markets: Ireland (19 percent), the UK (16.4 trillion and $4.3 trillion, respectively.

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Unbundling Climate Change Risk from ESG

Reynolds Holding

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

Reynolds Holding

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.