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Investors are starting to demand better of the companies they own

In 1970, Milton Friedman wrote an op-ed that would embolden investors and enrage activists for decades. Its title: “The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.” Despite insistence from many that his doctrine is dead, Friedman acolytes still count at least one powerful ally: the U.S. Labor Department. In a new rule to […]

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Volkswagen to tie High executives’ bonuses by hitting ESG Goals

Volkswagen AG intends to connect top executives’ incentives to ecological, strategic and social goals since the German industrial giant attempts to reinforce sustainability credentials which are increasingly related to investors. Executives’ settlement involves the incentive, a fixed salary plus a long-term incentive program associated with share-price performance. “Incorporating ESG criteria to the incentive calculations because […]

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The corporate world Must Perform better in diversity–{} does Fortune

Annually at Fortune‘s yearly Investor’s Guidewe create a point of letting readers understand how our prior year’s choices performed. These disclosures have caused us seem great of late night –the greater than two dozen stocks and ETFs our investment group advocated in past December’s manual got a median yield of 20.6percent since we printed the record, […]