disclosure – Benefits Canada.com https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:41:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 CFA’s ESG standards could facilitate greenwashing, warns IFIC https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/news/cir-news-news/cfas-esg-standards-could-facilitate-greenwashing-warns-ific/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=104255 The Chartered Financial Analyst Institute’s draft voluntary environmental, social and governance disclosure standards are vulnerable to greenwashing, warns the Investment Funds Institute of Canada. In an open letter to the CFA regarding its drafted voluntary regulations, the IFIC is criticizing the proposed standards’ failure to define what does and doesn’t qualify as an ESG investment. […]

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]]> What’s keeping ESG rankings so convoluted? https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/strategies/whats-keeping-esg-rankings-so-convoluted/ Fri, 17 Jul 2020 04:15:24 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/whats-keeping-esg-rankings-so-convoluted/ Morningstar Inc. is taking aim at the disparate ESG disclosure requirements still hampering the investment industry. In a recent report, Morningstar explored some of the issues hindering ESG measurement tools. “Simply put, ESG disclosures from issuers are all too often inconsistent and non-comparable and material information is not always available.” One key problem, it noted, […]

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]]> Is there a dark side to transparency and disclosure? https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/is-there-a-dark-side-to-transparency-and-disclosure/ Tue, 16 Jul 2019 03:49:15 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/is-there-a-dark-side-to-transparency-and-disclosure/ While investors want more disclosure and transparency, it can come with consequences. When the Securities and Exchange Commission launches an investigation of a firm for financial fraud, it’s voluntary for managers to disclose this. And even when the investigation doesn’t result in charges, firms that voluntarily disclose they were under investigation have significant negative returns […]

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]]> The Impact of Fees on CAP Members https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/expertpanel_/gerry-wahl/the-impact-of-fees-on-cap-members/ Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:00:42 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/the-impact-of-fees-on-cap-members/ And why we need better disclosure.

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