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Recent Featured ArticlesFeatured Articles March 8, 2010 Senators wrestle with Fed bank oversight issues
Source:Reuters
The Federal Reserve could retain oversight of large bank holding companies under a scaled-back regulatory reform plan being considered by key senators, but important questions remained unanswered, lobbyists said on Sunday March 8, 2010 Healthcare overhaul comes down to Pelosi and Obama
Source:LA Times
The fate of healthcare legislation turns on the endgame skills of two Democrats who bring vastly different assets to the task: President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Obama's signature ability to inspire fellow Democrats... March 6, 2010 A Fresh Look at Socially Responsible Mutual Funds
Source:US News and World Report
Most socially responsible mutual funds are born of a desire to help the environment, slow the spread of violence, or boycott certain practices. Parnassus Workplace (PARWX), on the other hand, sprang from between the covers of... March 6, 2010 Three States Sue EPA Over Global Warming Ruling
Source:Fox News
The bitterly contested fight in Washington over global warming and pollution is also taking hold at the state level. The Environmental Protection Agency, which is threatening to regulate carbon emissions if Congress won’t, is... March 6, 2010 Obama Turns up the Heat for Health Care Overhaul
Source:ABC News
Facing a tough political environment, President Barack Obama on Saturday turned up the heat for the health care overhaul that has been his top priority for a year yet has not been passed by Congress March 5, 2010 Women still under-represented in the boardroom: Survey
Source:Montreal Gazette
OTTAWA — A survey pointing to a dearth of female corporate directors suggests it's high time Canada's top companies opened their boardroom doors wider to women. As the 100th anniversary of the first International Women's Day is... March 5, 2010 SEC Climate Change Guidlines Lead to Record Numbers of Shareholder Resolutions
Source:Triple Pundit
If recent talk about climate change hasn’t already rattled every CEO’s corporate cage, then yesterday’s news regarding shareholder resolutions should do the trick. It was announced during a phone-based news conference today that... March 5, 2010 Salmonella found in food additive sparks recall
Source:LA Times
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced a potentially massive recall of salad dressing, chip dip, soup mixes and other foods made with a commonly used food additive that may be contaminated with salmonella. Among... March 5, 2010 Sebelius calls for openness in insurance rate hikes
Source:Indystar.com
WASHINGTON -- Unless Congress revamps the nation's health care system, the federal government can weigh in on "wildly exorbitant" insurance rate increases only by pressuring insurance companies to publicly justify them, Health... March 4, 2010 'Volcker Rule’ Draft Signals Obama Wants to Ease Market Impact
Source:BusinessWeek
The Obama administration’s legislative draft of the so-called Volcker Rule incorporated exemptions that may ease the impact on financial markets should it be enacted. March 4, 2010 Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis
Source:Working Knowledge - Harvard Business School
Toyota's ever-widening problems are a tragic case study in how not to lead in crisis. Under the media spotlight, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda, grandson of the founder, went into hiding and sent American CEO Jim Lentz to make apologies.... March 4, 2010 Obama steps up health care pressure
Source:Boston Globe
WASHINGTON - President Obama increased the pressure on Congress yesterday to take an up-or-down vote on his health care package, calling on Senate Democrats to bypass a Senate filibuster and revive the stalled legislation over... March 3, 2010 More Than 50 Companies Voluntarily Adopt“Say on Pay” as Institutional Investors Continue to Press for an Advisory Vote
Source:Walden Asset Management
Washington, DC—Investors pushing for annual advisory shareholder votes on executive compensation today announced that more than 50 companies have now voluntarily adopted giving their shareholders an annual advisory vote on...[more] March 3, 2010 ANSWERING THE QUESTION: IS ESG IS HERE TO STAY?
Source:Richard Barr – Featured Commentator
In a word, yes. However, to offer some encouraging support to the argument pro and con, a company simply named “Mercer” has assessed the state of the field of academic research into environmental, social, and corporate...[more] March 3, 2010 Consumer Agency Compromise Fails to Win Backing From Lawmakers
Source:BusinessWeek
A U.S. Senate compromise to create a consumer protection unit in the Federal Reserve encountered a wall of resistance over the scope of the powers planned for the regulator March 3, 2010 Obama's new health care reform plan to include GOP ideas
Source:CNN
Washington (CNN) -- In a last-ditch attempt to craft a bipartisan health care reform bill, President Obama will release a new proposal Wednesday that will include Republican ideas on tort reform and health savings accounts,... March 2, 2010 Companies Exposed to Water Risks Are Providing Investors With Too Little Data
Source:Social Funds.com
Global water scarcity has become a material business risk about which investors need information, to the extent that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) included a reference to the issue in its recent interpretive... March 2, 2010 Human rights advocates continue struggle for corporate accountability
Source:The Harvard Law Record
As globalization has transformed the way (and where, and with whom) we do business, major steps have been taken to ensure that corporations find it more difficult to exploit international tax loopholes. But loopholes that allow... March 2, 2010 Senate talks close in on deal for Wall Street regs
Source:AP
WASHINGTON — More than a year after Lehman Brothers' collapse set off a financial panic, Senate negotiators appear close to resolving a narrow dispute that was holding up broad legislation to set new rules for Wall Street. At... March 2, 2010 Themed green funds continue sales boom
Source:Responsible Investor
Themed RI funds, which include green investment strategies, continued to rake in assets during December last year – as talks at Copenhagen ploughed on – with total sales of just over €2bn for the month, according to the latest... March 1, 2010 Madoff whistleblower says SEC still too timid
Source:Reuters
Financial regulators have not fully learned their lessons despite missing the massive fraud engineered by Bernard Madoff, said the man who tried for years to raise the alarm about Madoff's scheme. March 1, 2010 Al Gore takes aim at climate change skeptics
Source:Reuters
Former Vice President Al Gore on took aim at skeptics who doubt the reality of human-caused climate change, saying he wished it were an illusion but that the problem is real and urgent. March 1, 2010 MSCI buys RiskMetrics for $1.55bn
Source:Responsible Investor
MSCI, the index and risk group is buying RiskMetrics, the New York-listed risk management and corporate governance firm, in the latest twist to consolidation in the ESG research and governance space. It is paying approximately... March 1, 2010 Talks Continue on Senate Financial Reform Bill
Source:CNBC
Negotiators for Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) were back at work on a bipartisan financial regulatory-reform bill Sunday, following talks Saturday that yielded no "real... February 28, 2010 Warming panel, under attack, seeks outside review
Source:AP
WASHINGTON — The Nobel Prize-winning international scientific panel studying global warming is seeking independent outside review for how it makes major reports. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it's seeking... |
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