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Vanguard settles Texas-led coal antitrust lawsuit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2026  |  NEWS
... commitments in the industry and to empower its investors with proxy voting - a first for the industry," Texas attorney general Ken Paxton said, despite Vanguard's Investor Choice program - the largest proxy voting choice program in the world - having ...

BlackRock settles lawsuit for 'misleading consumers'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... objectives and alignments with climate-focused initiatives as well as other policy-oriented goals. Tennessee attorney general Jonathan Skrmetti, who filed the "first-of-its-kind" legal case in December 2023, accused BlackRock of misleading consumers ...

Investors dismiss US federal court case

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... the case against them by 11 red US states, calling accusations they violated antitrust laws "baseless". Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a Federal Court case claiming the firms "conspired to artificially constrict the market for coal through anticompetitive ...

S&P Global drops ESG letter ratings from credit reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... fund management practices. DeSantis and the two other trustees of the SBA, state CFO Jimmy Patronis, and state Attorney General Ashley Moody, directed their fund managers to invest "without considering the ideological agenda of the environmental, social ...

NSW Modern Slavery Plan to build prevention capability

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... purpose: foster diverse collaboration in an Anti-Slavery Forum, secure sustainable resourcing arrangements. NSW Attorney General Michael Daley said a lack of awareness was one of the main problems the plan hopes to address. "There is no room for politics ...

Review recommends significant reforms to Modern Slavery Act

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023  |  NEWS
... by Professor John McMillan AO was a statutory analysis of the operation of the Act in its first three years. Attorney General Mark Dreyfus tabled the report in Parliament late this week. Other recommendations include lowering the reporting threshold ...

Testing ESG impacts on US pension fund returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... rules that would allow US-based retirement plans to consider ESG factors in their investment processes. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes are leading the suit, which alleges that the rules change violates the Employee ...

US attorneys general call out proxy advisers for "woke" agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023  |  NEWS
... warning them over ESG-related recommendations to their states' investment vehicles including pension funds. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes have led a coalition of 21 states attorneys general in writing to Institutional ...

US states sue Biden administration over "woke" ESG rules

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... rules that would allow US-based retirement plans to consider ESG factors in their investment processes. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes are leading the suit, which alleges that the rules change violates the Employee ...

Missouri pulls BlackRock mandate in anti-ESG move

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... fund management practices. DeSantis and the two other trustees of the SBA, state CFO Jimmy Patronis, and state Attorney General Ashley Moody, have directed their fund managers to invest "without considering the ideological agenda of the environmental ...
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