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Prise en compte des critères ESG : les mythes s’effondrent

Bonjour à toutes et à tous, intéressante étude publiée à la mi-août par l’IRRC Institute (ESG Issues in Investing: Investors Debunk the Myths) selon laquelle : « Almost Three Quarters of Investment Professionals Use Environmental, Social & Governance Information When Making Investment Décisions. New CFA Institute survey highlights board accountability, human capital and executive compensation as important issues ».


Voici le bilan :

  • Risk evaluation: Sixty-three percent of survey respondents said they consider ESG in the investment decision making process to help manage investment risks, 44 percent say that their clients/investors demand it and 38 percent said ESG performance is a proxy for management quality.
  • Top three issues in decision-making: Survey respondents ranked board accountability, human capital, and executive compensation as the issues most important to investment analysis and decision-making.
  • Regional breakdown: A high proportion of CFA Institute members in the Asia-Pacific region considered ESG issues (78 percent), followed closely by members in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region (74 percent). Respondents in the Americas region were the least likely to use ESG information in their decision-making process, but, even there, a solid majority (59 percent) do use ESG factors.
  • ESG integration in the investment process: Fifty-seven percent of respondents integrate ESG into the whole investment analysis and decision-making process, while 38 percent use best-in-class positive alignment; 36 percent use ESG analysis for exclusionary screening.
  • ESG disclosures: Sixty-one percent of survey respondents agreed that public companies should be required to report at least annually on a cohesive set of sustainability indicators in accordance with the most up-to-date reporting framework. In addition, 69 percent of these respondents say ESG disclosures should be subject to independent verification. Furthermore, of these, 44 percent believe that verification at a high level of assurance, similar to an audit, is necessary. Another 46 percent believe limited verification, or a lower level of assurance, is necessary. When this group was asked how much should be spent on independent verification, responses varied from 10 percent to 100 percent of the cost of an audit of financial statements.

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Ivan Tchotourian

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L’OSC mécontente des entreprises pour la féminisation

Bonjour à toutes et à tous, intéressant article paru dans The Globe and Mail du 10 juin 2015 : « OSC rebukes firms for lack of action on gender-diversity rules ». Faut-il y voir là les limite des normes souple sur le modèle du comply or explain ? Le Canada ne devait-il pas aller plus loin comme la France ou les pays nordiques en imposant des quotas ?

Many companies have shown bare “technical compliance” with new gender-diversity reporting rules introduced this year and it is “simply not good enough,” Ontario Securities Commission chair Howard Wetston says. Mr. Wetston said on Wednesday that the OSC has begun reviewing proxy circulars filed this year to see how companies are responding to the rules requiring them to disclose details about their policies to bolster women in senior roles, or else explain why they do not have policies in place. While some companies have provided excellent disclosure and have a lot of women on their boards of directors, he said, others have been disappointing.

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Ivan Tchotourian