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...The challenge to Fink’s dual role comes as BlackRock has been under fire from multiple directions over its use of environmental, social and governance factors in investing....
...The measures are also designed to help achieve a “progressive alignment of ISR portfolios with the [2015] Paris Agreement”, it added....
...Progressive social activists, meanwhile, are angry that the money managers have been supporting a smaller share of shareholder proposals on climate issues than they did in 2021....
...Woke Inc is under attack. Battle lines have been drawn in America’s latest culture war, with Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor, its general....
...Chen, a former Democratic Progressive party staffer, spoke out about being sexually harassed at work by a filmmaker hired by her party....
...Now influential voices on the right have joined them, claiming that corporate America is pushing a radical progressive ideology....
...BlackRock has in recent years been criticised by some conservative politicians, businesspeople and activists for being “woke” because of Fink’s vocal support for investing according to environmental, social...
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...(FT) Video of the day Gillian Tett explains ESG’s importance Companies and investors are no longer able to ignore the impact of environmental and social governance issues....
...Now, its leap into bitcoin is casting a pall over its environmental credibility as well....
...On the last Sunday of April 2019, a sleek Gulfstream V jet belonging to Occidental Petroleum touched down at Omaha airport....
...But this doesn’t stop her being vocal about progressive issues....
...Equally, it is hard to think of a UK-listed financial services group better placed to capitalise on this momentous, even exponential, shift....
...Beyond Petroleum wasn’t pitched in the first instance as an environmental manifesto. It was mostly about groceries....
...Progressives in the Senate and House have introduced legislation that would ban their use at a federal level....
...Kelcy Warren, ETP’s chief executive, said: “It’s a changed environment, and it’s going to add to all of our costs, and all of us must build that into our costs when we price our services.”...
...Without losing an inch of gallery space, Grynsztejn and architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of Los Angeles firm Johnston Marklee converted 12,000 sq ft into areas accessible and free to the public....
...But after allegations of environmental damage, Tronox collapsed, leaving Kerr-McGee and its new owner Anadarko to pay out $5bn in damages....
...Newspapers group Johnston Press is in discussions to buy the i. No, that isn’t fat-finger syndrome....
...While here in London we’ll help the British Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A move their collections out of storage and on display....
...“I won’t say that people come here because of them but I think they see them as a sign the hospital is progressive.”...
...But spend that same amount on a sprawling historic building and the money can be swallowed up on restoration, fixing leaky roofs and installing expensive new services and environmental controls; if the job...
...Gay marriage is the perfect example of this mash-up, revivifying an old institution with progressive social attitudes. We are proud to be imperfect....
...Apple has claimed in the past to run the store at “a bit over break-even”, and its iCloud service clearly anticipates changing trends as people move to the Spotify and Pandora models of subscription services...
...In May, it bought a 65 per cent stake in consultancy group Environmental Resource Management from Bridgepoint in a deal that valued the company at $950m....
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