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BlackRock facing more blowback over ESG as GOP pressure mounts

It’s been a tough couple weeks for BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest money manager, which endured fresh blows from Republican officials sharply critical of ESG.

Tribune News Service

Pro-ESG and anti-ESG activist investors have more in common than you might imagine

They want companies to stay out of politics.

Fortune

BlackRock CEO faces call to step down amid claims of hypocrisy

Hedge fund says company still too attached to fossil fuels as it promotes eco-conscious strategy

The Guardian - UK

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Stocks Edge Lower, Toll Brothers, BlackRock, GameStop And Georgia Runoff Results - Five Things To Know

Stock futures lower as growth, inflation worries mount; Toll Brothers gains after solid Q4 earnings, home building outlook; BlackRock edges lower as activist investor targets CEO Larry Fink; GameStop higher ahead of Q3 earnings with costs in focus and Raphael Warnock wins Georgia senate runoff over Herschel Walker.

The Street

Even BlackRock is too woke for Florida

The sunshine state's conservative CFO is pulling $2 billion of taxpayer assets from BlackRock for promoting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles.

Fortune

Florida pulls $2B from BlackRock, cites differences in investing philosophy

Florida will pull $2 billion from the largest asset-management firm in the world over ideological differences.

Miami Herald

3 takeaways on SBF, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Fink from DealBook’s buzzy Summit

The former FTX CEO took the lawyerly route, while the Meta chief blasted Apple and the BlackRock leader forecasted change in tech.

Fortune

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BlackRock's Fink predicts most crypto firms will go under

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink thinks that most crypto companies won't survive in the wake of Bankman Fried's FTX collapse.

Fortune

FTX chief Sam Bankman-Fried says he ‘screwed up’ but rejects fraud claim

Disgraced chief executive tells summit he ‘didn’t knowingly commingle funds’ with FTX’s sister company Alameda Research

The Guardian - US

‘You’ll have to talk to the UK staff’: can global water investors be held to account?

Will Malaysia’s YTL, US-based BlackRock and Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison Holdings answer questions about environmental damage?

The Guardian - UK

Midterm results could strengthen state opposition to ESG

Republican midterm gains could strengthen state opposition to ESG according to Roll Call

Ballotpedia

Economy and Society, October 11, 2022: Louisiana treasurer announces plan to divest state funds from BlackRock

Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

Ballotpedia

The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord

The long read: The giant asset management firm used to target places where people worked and shopped. Then it started buying up people’s homes. In one country, the backlash was ferocious

The Guardian - UK

Investors’ climate pledges take center stage amid growing risks

World leaders renewed a call for climate action and a transition from fossil fuels as they convened at the 14th annual Climate Week in New York City.

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Roll Call

Investors' climate pledges take center stage amid growing risks - Roll Call

At Climate Week in New York City, attendees urge global financial institutions to scale back the financing of oil, gas and coal projects.

The New Daily

When the finance moves, get out of the way: How capital is driving the transition to net zero

Amid a downward trend in renewable energy prices, corporations are accelerating global net-zero energy policy.

WEKU

How ESG investing got tangled up in America's culture wars

Amid Republican attacks, investors focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues say they are just trying understand emerging risks and opportunities.

Benzinga

Brief Recession or Complete Economic Collapse? What These Wall Street Veterans Think

Since the pandemic hit in 2020, conspiracy theorists have had a field day. With seemingly everything in question, it’s been hard to discern real information from fake.

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The Independent UK

Clinton initiative's NYC return includes Andres, Queen Rania

World Central Kitchen founder Jose Andres, Jordan’s Queen Rania, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will help relaunch the Clinton Global Initiative in September

Benzinga

BlackRock's CEO Just Dumped $20M In Shares: Here's What Happened The Last Time He Did It

The CEO of the largest asset management company in the world recently sold a large number of shares. Could the sale be a foreshadowing of what’s to come in the markets?

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: The GOP is now complaining about environmentally conscious investing

In May, Elon Musk went on the warpath against the investment model known by the initials ESG, short for "environmental, social and governance" principles.

Ballotpedia

Economy and Society June 21, 2022: SEC Goldman Sachs probe causing ripples

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Economy and Society: SEC’s disclosure proposal and the costs of compliance

Ballotpedia

Elon Musk continues push back against ESG

Documenting ESG pushback

Ballotpedia

Former Vice President Pence takes on ESG

Pence takes on ESG

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