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(Reuters) -A judge in Oklahoma blocked a state law that prohibits state pension systems from contracting with companies that limit investment in the oil and gas industry. Oklahoma County District ...
Passing restrictive laws at the federal or state level, instructing these administrators to avoid certain industries or banks perceived to be too “woke” or not “woke” enough, could put ...
Oklahoma’s law, which passed the Legislature in 2022, was the result of a push by the State Financial Officers Foundation, a nonprofit based in Kansas that promotes anti-ESG legislation. ESG ...
ESG factors and ratings took an established place in the finance realm. Indeed, the 2021 ESG assets market value was over $18.4 trillion worth of investments with a projected growth of 12.9% until 2026. [34] ESG saw outflows for the first time in 2023. [35]
As a matter of law, in the United States, the materiality principle controls whether a publicly traded corporation must disclose certain information, that is: "a fact is material if there is a substantial likelihood that the fact would have been viewed by a reasonable investor as having significantly altered the ‘total mix’ of information ...
The US SIF Public Policy Program supports an agenda that advances sustainable investment to the national legislative and executive branches of government. [3] Through US SIF, the sustainable investment industry brings a distinct voice and set of priorities to legislative and regulatory initiatives.
"The law violates the First Amendment by barring companies from competing for state investments or contracting with the state whenever Texas believes those companies espouse a disfavored viewpoint ...
"Texas has been over the past decade the epicenter of the kind of extreme laws," says a spokesman for a national pro-ESG organization.