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Congressional Testimony: Problems With The Sec's Climate Disclosure Proposal, Lawrence A. Cunningham
Congressional Testimony: Problems With The Sec's Climate Disclosure Proposal, Lawrence A. Cunningham
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This Congressional testimony, requested by the House Financial Services Committee, identifies the fatal flaws embedded in the SEC's controversial climate disclosure rule, To summarize some primary problems, the Proposal:
- disregards evidence that most individual investors buy stocks primarily to save, not to influence climate policy;
- does not address the millions of individual American investors who need the SEC’s protection as they save for education, homes, retirement, and philanthropy; and
- ignores conflicts of interest between large asset managers and their beneficiaries—ordinary Americans—who have different preferences and goals.
In addition, the Proposal mandates irrelevant and burdensome disclosures that would harm investors by: …