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The ACSI will consider recommending that its members vote against current leadership at companies where women comprise less than 30% of the board.

Artificial intelligence-fueled productivity should expand margins by 4 percentage points, the firm projects, but it won’t happen right away.

The deposit flight has halted, and lending hasn’t suffered, the firm notes.

Pointing to low levels of diversity among money managers and private equity firms, it gives examples of successful programs that boost diversity.

But when portfolios are not cap-weighted, green-oriented investments do better, the firm finds.

The so-called ‘X-date’ could come in June instead of August, say studies by Goldman Sachs and Wrightson ICAP, based on lower-than-estimated federal tax receipts.

A CIO panel explored different ways for allocators to assess their outsourced investment chiefs.

There will also be a job-loss toll, but, as in previous technology leaps, many displaced workers will fit into newly created positions, the firm’s study says.

Microsoft and BHP were cited the most by asset managers as providing the best climate risk information.

The asset class will still provide ‘highly attractive returns,’ even if economic growth slows, says First Sentier Investors.

Report finds tenfold jump in SWFs that see addressing climate change as consistent with their mandate.

Authors present their new Investor Blueprint for Racial and Economic Equity at NY Fed event.

Equity returns are almost half a percentage point higher with more women in investment firms, per WTW.