{"id":10398,"date":"2023-04-08T22:28:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T22:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10398"},"modified":"2023-04-08T22:28:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T22:28:06","slug":"bidens-first-veto-protects-and-promotes-esg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10398","title":{"rendered":"Biden’s First Veto Protects and Promotes ESG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Trump’s rule held that if two good investments graded equally on likely risks and potential returns, ESG factors could serve as a tiebreaker, but, like the vice president’s vote in the Senate, should have no deciding force absent a deadlock.”
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“”The Biden Rule, like the Trump Rule, confirms the permissibility of ESG investing in pursuit of improved risk-adjusted returns in accordance with prudent investor principles without mandating such an investment strategy,” argue<\/a> Northwestern’s Max M. Schanzenbach and Harvard’s Robert H. Sitkoff. “ERISA fiduciaries who did not use ESG factors prior to 2022 should feel no greater urgency to begin doing so now. And ERISA fiduciaries who are investing for collateral benefits continue to run the same fiduciary risk as before.””
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“Nevertheless, politicians\u2014the president among them\u2014have exaggerated the new rule’s immediate policy impact. “It simply states that if fiduciaries wish to consider ESG factors\u2014and if their methods are shown to be prudent\u2014they are free to do so.””
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“Trump’s rule held that if two good investments graded equally on likely risks and potential returns, ESG factors could serve as a tiebreaker, but, like the vice president’s vote in the Senate, should have no deciding force absent a deadlock.”<\/p>\n

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“”The Biden Rule, like the Trump Rule, confirms the permissibility of ESG investing in pursuit of improved risk-adjusted returns in accordance with prudent investor principles without mandating such an investment strategy,” argue Northwestern’s Max M. Schanzenbach and Harvard’s Robert H. Sitkoff. “ERISA fiduciaries who did not use ESG factors prior to 2022 should feel no greater urgency to begin doing so now. And ERISA fiduciaries who are investing for collateral benefits continue to run the same fiduciary risk as before.””<\/p>\n

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“Nevertheless, politicians\u2014the president among them\u2014have exaggerated the new rule’s immediate policy impact. “It simply states that if fiduciaries wish to consider ESG factors\u2014and if their methods are shown to be prudent\u2014they are free to do so.””<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[780,906,1624],"class_list":["post-10398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-joe-biden","tag-legislation","tag-veto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10399,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions\/10399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}