27 January, 2021
Annual BlackRock CEO letter focuses on climate and diversity
Companies wait expectantly for the annual CEO letter from Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, the world’s biggest fund manager.
2 December, 2020
Shareholder pressure gets women directors on US boards
Much research has argued the business case for gender diversity on boards. But it is pressure applied by big shareholders that seems to have progressed the cause of women in US boardrooms. New rese...
30 October, 2020
BlackRock backs global sustainability reporting standards
BlackRock, the world’s biggest fund manager, has put its shoulder behind the creation of a single set of global sustainability reporting standards. The support is timely. If implemented, new stan...
15 January, 2020
BlackRock CEO letter issues warning on sustainability disclosures
Boards and directors have been placed on notice that the world’s biggest fund manager will vote against if they fail to adapt to making sustainability disclosures. The warning to act or lose the ...
10 January, 2020
Heartache to headache: why workplace relationships are a problem
Late last year workplace relationships hit the headlines with a bang. First global fast-food chain McDonald’s
18 December, 2019
BlackRock challenged to provide details of stakeholder pledge
You can’t talk the talk without having to walk the walk. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is being held to account for signing up to a major reset of corporate values. At the end o...
21 January, 2019
Culture and intangibles top list of engagement concerns
It’s culture, stupid! Whichever way you look at the annual letters from two of the world’s biggest investment managers, it all comes down to a concern for corporate culture. Culture was either ...
26 October, 2018
BlackRock’s sustainable investment ambition
It was probably inevitable, but the fact that the world’s largest fund manager has thrown its weight behind sustainable investing really puts down a marker. [pull-left]“Sustainable investing wi...
23 May, 2018
Asset managers devise questions for “purpose-led” companies
A group of ten asset managers have formulated questions for boards to assess whether their businesses are “genuinely purpose-led”. Investors with assets worth $8trn, including BlackRock, Legal ...
18 May, 2018
