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DLA Piper

Institutional Investor Newsletter: Q2 2025

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If enacted, the House Committee on Ways and Means’ tax bill, entitled “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” could affect certain institutional investors. Among other measures, the proposed legislation would impose elevated US tax...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Making Sure Newly Cautious Shareholders Get the Information They Want

Key Points - Revised guidance from the SEC regarding ownership reporting is making institutional investors circumspect about raising issues with management. - Seeking to influence a company’s executive compensation, or...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Prepare for Changes to the Shareholder Engagement Process

As companies prepare for engagement with their shareholders in connection with the 2025 annual meeting season, they should be prepared for a change in the approach followed by institutional investors. These changes are being...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Institutional Investors, Investment Funds, and ESG

Recently, we have been witnessing a trend among institutional investors of preferring investment funds that take ESG (environmental, social and governance) considerations into account. ESG considerations lead to investments...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

ESG – Workplace Developments in the UK

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ESG or Environmental, Social, and Governance aspects of the workplace have become an increasingly hot topic over the last few years in many UK workplaces. Driven by a combination of a tight labour market, heightened...more

White & Case LLP

The INDEX Act: A challenge to the voting influence of institutional investors that may yield unintended consequences

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The Act's supporters say it would shift voting power from large investment advisers to individual investors, but the reality could be far more complex - The INDEX Act arrives at a moment of increasing resistance to ESG...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

FCA Launches Discussion on Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and Product Labels

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The regulator is inviting views on potential criteria for classifying and labelling investment products, and on further entity- and product-level sustainability-related disclosures. On 3 November 2021, the FCA published...more

BCLP

Momentum Shifts as Investors Consider Growing Link Between ESG and EPS

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A trio of recent developments illustrate growing support for Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives in the U.S., as well as abroad. ESG regulatory and legal risks now appear top of mind for institutional...more

The Volkov Law Group

The Rise of ESG In Response to Investor Demand

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Corporate governance sometimes is the subject of “fads,” or initiatives that gain traction with dubious evidence-based justifications.  Sometimes companies engage new theories or strategies because they “sound good,” or give...more

Kilpatrick

The Competing Factors Driving ESG Disclosures

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There has been mounting pressure on mandatory ESG disclosure in recent years that may reach a precipice in 2021 with a new SEC Chairman. The forces driving this pressure include institutional investors, fiduciary duties,...more

Opportune LLP

ESG for Energy: 3 Things Companies Should Be Doing – Part 1

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In the first installment of a two-part series, Director Tony Jones discusses how energy companies, both large and small, should be formalizing their plans and initiatives in the face of growing ESG investment strategies and...more

K&L Gates LLP

ERISA Developments: 2019 Seattle Investment Management Conference

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TOPICS - - Socially responsible/ESG investing - Distribution through consulting/OCIO firms ...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Following the Trends: Endowment Investing in Private Equity

As institutional investors, university and college endowments have several characteristics that harmonize with the private equity investment timelines, such as longer return horizons and indeterminate liabilities. So, it...more

Baker Donelson

ESG Policies for REITs: Understand the Metrics and Improve Your Rating

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Investors are becoming increasingly mindful of the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies of public and private companies. ESG is the term used by investors in evaluating whether a company meets certain...more

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