Disconnect Between ESG Issues And Corporate Responsibility Reporting

Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues have moved to the forefront of activist investing, and the topic was the focus of a panel at the The Deal’s Corporate Governance 2019 conference in New York last week. The panelists were: Charles Penner of JANA Partners, Kal Goldberg of Finsbury, Rick Hansen of General Motors, and Veena Ramani of Ceres. Q1 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc Penner said they have been seeing growth in demand for their ESG fund at JANA, but he also believes that only time will tell whether ESG will remain a long-term viable business model. He…