On this International Women’s Day, data providers and investors take stock of diversity progress at the executive-level.   An array of new reports has highlighted an increase in gender diversity on corporate boards, but also warn that global progress towards parity remained too slow, with sizeable disparities between countries.   Progress towards gender equality started from a low base, and more needs…

A selection of the week’s major stories impacting ESG investors, in five easy pieces. This week, the Securities and Exchange Commission delighted and disappointed as it sought to find the path of least resistance to its climate disclosure rules. Scope for improvement – In the same week that meteorologists confirmed the ninth consecutive month of record-breaking heat, US financial regulators…

Investors are currently under-estimating the correlated risks that Indigenous Rights can pose to their portfolios, according to Rebecca Adamson, Founder of First Peoples Worldwide. Investors face four hard truths in today’s finance markets: massive global demographic shifts; unprecedented demands on natural resources; trillion-dollar capital shifts taking place worldwide; and the accelerated spread of increased market volatility. Many forms of risk…