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What’S Scope 3 Good For?, Madison Condon
What’S Scope 3 Good For?, Madison Condon
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Opposition to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) new rule on updated climate risk reporting has focused on one category of disclosures as particularly objectionable: Scope 3 emissions.7 Otherwise known as “supply chain emissions,” Scope 3 emissions have been voluntarily reported by a growing number of companies since the term was invented as part of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol in 2001.8 They include all the emissions both up and downstream of a corporations’ own activities: the emissions of the privately-owned factory that produced the shoes Target sells, as well as the emissions you burn while driving to the …
Saving Climate Disclosure, Scott Hirst
Saving Climate Disclosure, Scott Hirst
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Designing a regulatory response to climate change is one of the defining challenges of our era. In an attempt to address it, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently proposed a historic rule requiring climate-related disclosure by companies, resting squarely on the rationale of "investor demand." The proposed climate disclosure rule has met with an unprecedented response, some of it reflective of investor demand, but also including a broad array of opponents critical of the rule, who cast doubt on the rule's validity. A judicial challenge is all but inevitable.
This Article explains that the best way for the …
The Sec's Compensation Clawback Loophole, David I. Walker
The Sec's Compensation Clawback Loophole, David I. Walker
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The SEC has recently released final rules implementing the executive incentive compensation recovery or “clawback” provisions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. These rules are aimed at recovering from executives incentive compensation determined to be excessive in light of a subsequent accounting restatement. Unfortunately, the SEC’s rules create a loophole by excluding purely time-vested stock and stock option grants from the reach of the new clawback regime. This aspect of the rulemaking seems inconsistent with the intent of Congress, and the result likely will be to distort executive pay practices in a perverse fashion, shifting compensation back in the direction of …
Hidden Agendas In Shareholder Voting, Scott Hirst, Adriana Z. Robertson
Hidden Agendas In Shareholder Voting, Scott Hirst, Adriana Z. Robertson
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Nothing in either corporate or securities law requires companies to notify investors what they will be voting on before the record date for a shareholder meeting. We show that, overwhelmingly, they do not. The result is “hidden agendas”: for 88% of shareholder votes, investors cannot find out what they will be voting on before the record date. This poses an especially serious problem for investors who engage in securities lending: they must decide whether the expected benefit of voting exceeds the expected benefit of continuing to lend their shares (or making them available for lending) without knowing what they will …
Private Investment Funds: Hedge Funds' Regulation By Size, Tamar Frankel
Private Investment Funds: Hedge Funds' Regulation By Size, Tamar Frankel
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This Article focuses on hedge funds-a species of private investment funds. These funds appeared in the 1950s and remained active but small. Then, in a fairly short period, they grew enormously to over $1.5 trillion, although the estimates vary.1 Hedge fund managers engage in more than twenty-five different categories of investment strategies.2 Since 2002, the number of hedge funds has more than doubled to an estimated 9,000 funds,3 and their assets have grown by 400% to an estimated $1.4 trillion since 1999.4 Other estimates are higher, suggesting current hedge fund assets at $2 trillion and their …
Trends In The Regulation Of Investment Companies And Investment Advisers, Tamar Frankel
Trends In The Regulation Of Investment Companies And Investment Advisers, Tamar Frankel
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Statutes, rules and enforcement actions are tea leaves we can read to predict future trends of mutual fund regulation. While statutes and rules are specific, the trends they signify are far more speculative. This Essay engages in such speculation to envision the long-term implications of the recent new N- 1A disclosure form, I the plain English Rule,2 and the profile. 3 More generally, the Essay speculates on future trends in Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") enforcement, and predicts a continued and stronger use of informal enforcement by the Commission.
The Pros And Cons Of A Self-Regulatory Organization For Advisers And Mutual Funds, Tamar Frankel
The Pros And Cons Of A Self-Regulatory Organization For Advisers And Mutual Funds, Tamar Frankel
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Congress is seriously considering bills to establish self-regulatory organizations (SROs) for investment advisers (advisers) and investment companies (Funds). These bills would require members of the investment management industry to regulate themselves under the watchful eye of the Securities and Exchange Commission, similar in approach to the regulation of broker-dealers by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD) and the securities exchanges. Proposals to establish SRO for investment advisers have arisen before. However, those proposals did not cover Funds and their advisers,
Investment Company Advertising, Tamar Frankel
Investment Company Advertising, Tamar Frankel
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SEC Regulation has changed from specific guidelines for advertisers to a general antifraud provision. Despite greater latitude, conflicts may arise between the commission's regulation and first amendment protection of commercial speech.
Insider Transactions Under The 1940 Act, Tamar Frankel
Insider Transactions Under The 1940 Act, Tamar Frankel
Faculty Scholarship
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