disclosures – 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 Canadian investors less skeptical of corporate ESG than global average: survey https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/research-markets/canadian-investors-less-skeptical-of-corporate-esg-than-global-average-survey/ Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:55:35 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=111919 Nearly three-quarters (72 per cent) of Canadian institutional investors don’t believe companies can be trusted to achieve their stated environmental, social and governance commitments, according to a new survey by U.S. public relations firm Edelman. The survey looked at the opinions of institutional investment professionals from Canada, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, the U.K. and the […]

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]]> COP26 highlighting importance of ESG, disclosure for institutional investors https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/strategies/cop26-highlighting-importance-of-esg-disclosure-for-institutional-investors/ Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:00:11 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=111352 As talks at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference winds down, 2022 is poised to become the “show me” year for environmental, social and governance factors and sustainability measures, says Eugene Lundrigan, president of Sun Life Capital Management Inc. This year’s conference, dubbed COP26, brought world leaders and thousands of delegates from participating countries to Glasgow, […]

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]]> 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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