“Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects,” Fink warned. “We are on the edge of a ...

The deal will give global asset managers and owners access to RepRisk’s data on material ESG risks to companies through the ...

BlackRock boss Larry Fink, at the forefront of the business world’s adoption of environmental, social and corporate governance standards, has stopped using the term, saying it has become too ...

Then came a fierce backlash. Conservative think tanks and legislators funded by the oil and gas industry accused BlackRock ...

BlackRock, for all its ESG talk, is the largest global investor in fossil fuels. Not only would divestment destroy the stocks of these companies, ...

A new report reveals that BlackRock voted on 30% of ESG-related proposals in 2022, 6% more ESG-support than the 24% number it reported on E&S proposals.

A top deputy to Texas A.G. Ken Paxton gave the “inside story” on how he threatened Wells Fargo’s bond business and a lawsuit ...

But management remains subject to BlackRock’s behind-the-scenes ESG pressure diminishing the value of that option. In his 2020 letter to CEOs, Fink called this pressure “engagement.” ...

Blackrock CEO "Larry Fink may claim that ESG has ‘been weaponized by left and right,’" he said, referencing a July 2023 Fox Business interview with Fink.

BlackRock, and Fink in particular, have emerged as sort of the symbolic punching back for Republicans targeting the ESG movement. Earlier this year, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) even levied some of the ...

While left-leaning states have long supported BlackRock’s ESG investing, conservative states increasingly object. In August, 19 red-state attorneys general sent BlackRock CEO Larry Fink a letter ...

BlackRock's ongoing push for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards for companies appears to have put the firm between a rock and a hard place. After the world's largest asset ...