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Category: SEC

Applicants awaiting interviews, discussing eco disclosures

Help Wanted: ESG Auditors and Consultants

Applicants awaiting interviews, discussing eco disclosures

Now that the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rules for disclosing risks related to climate change, publicly traded companies are starting the heavy lifting involved in reporting the newly required environmental, social and g...

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SEC Overturns Curbs on Influence of Proxy Advisors

Kid walking on sidewalk in black and white

Proxy advisory firms weren’t particularly popular with the Securities and Exchange Commission during the previous presidential administration. Quite the opposite, in fact, as the SEC passed rules in 2020 designed to blunt the influence of f...

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SEC Indicates New Concerns Over Auditor Independence

Spiral iron gate railings meeting SOX compliance.

Who’s watching the watchers? It’s a question that has preoccupied conspiracy theorists and flummoxed polities for centuries. It seems to come up regularly in the world of corporate governance, too, when assessing Wall Street gatekeepers who...

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Major Questions Loom Over SEC’s Climate-Disclosure Rules

Storm Clouds Brewing in the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court’s emboldened majority has used a controversial doctrine favored by conservatives to great effect lately. First, justices relied on it in striking down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s pandemic-related evict...

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Elon Musk Says It’s High Time to End Twitter Deal

Thriving marijuana plant with performance clause

It’s official: No one has ever spent more on bad marijuana jokes than former Saturday Night Live guest host and current Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The world’s richest man previously dabbled in cannabis humor with a 2018 tweet about taking Tesla p...

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