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...to responsible investment,” said Nathan Fabian, the PRI’s chief responsible investment officer....
...The second, with PRI’s Fiona Reynolds, underscores how the growing calls for ESG disclosures can quickly get complicated....
...Investors should be able to track the effects engagement is having, said Sagarika Chatterjee, the director of climate change at PRI, and be clear about when and how to “escalate”....
...Creative carbon accounting is enabled by the absence of an agreed definition of net zero, which is “still a nascent concept”, said the PRI’s Chatterjee....
...The PRI says that this forceful policy response is “a highly likely outcome, leaving portfolios exposed to significant risk”....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on December 5 2019. @2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“The process the SEC has pursued as it considers these changes raises serious concerns,” PRI said. “Regulators are trying to cut corners by issuing guidance instead of a rule.”...
...Try our weekly FirstFT quiz Meredith Corporation has teamed up with the billionaire Koch brothers to acquire Time Inc, which publishes Time, People and Sports Illustrated magazines....
...The gubernatorial election in the populous State of Mexico was a critical test for Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico’s president, and the ruling party, the PRI, ahead of next year’s presidential vote....
...Wells’ debt is best avoided, says Pri da Silva, analyst at CreditSights, given those doubts about its future. “Why have the uncertainty when you can get the same if not better yields elsewhere?”...
...The PRI, the responsible investment group backed by the UN, said the scores from MSCI could help counter the under-reporting of reputational risks by companies that move profits to minimise tax....
...“These instruments become deadweight debt in relation to TLAC,” Pri de Silva, an analyst at CreditSights, said of the bonds when they fall within a year of their maturity....
...Despite warnings that adverse tax changes or audits could materially increase companies’ costs, investors have been slow to appreciate the potential risks, according to Fiona Reynolds, managing director of PRI...
...But overall, TLAC issuance was at a “measured pace,” said Pri da Silva, an analyst at CreditSights, noting that the amount of debt issued was only slightly higher than the amount that came due during the...
...The New York-based investment bank is probably paying a lighter penalty than its Wall Street peers because it was not a big mortgage originator, said Pri de Silva, analyst at CreditSights in New York....
...“It’s a total black box,” said Pri de Silva, an analyst at CreditSights....
...“We are starting to see some progress, particularly in the US,” says Fiona Reynolds, managing director of the PRI....
...The UN PRI recently found that tax is a significant concern for 100 of its 1,300 signatories....
...Even Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, Nest’s founders, built their thermostats and smoke alarms much as Apple might: charging premium prices for devices with a design and attention to detail that strive...
...And SRA International and DynCorp were standalone defence consultants that were also acquired by financial sponsors....
...He describes the experience as a fast-track management course, including the tricky issue of family relations....
...In Mexico, that undoubtedly means the energy sector, where the four-month-old administration of Enrique Peña Nieto, president for the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has promised to create...
...It earned $40.8bn during the past decade, while Agility, the logistics company, and DynCorp, which specialises in security, earned $9bn and $7.4bn respectively, according to a US government report....
...What about the PRI’s long standing reputation for corruption?...
...That has left the PRI’s Mr Peña Nieto to sweep the table....
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