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“AI and sustainability - cure or curse?”
While AI can help resolve data issues in sustainable investing, it can create problems such as information breaches and inherent bias in data.
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Global | Publication | December 2017
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis (GL) have both updated their proxy voting guidelines for the 2018 proxy season. Key changes to the guidelines relate to director overboarding and gender diversity. The guidelines are generally stated to be applicable to meetings held in 2018, but the implementation of some changes (as set out below) is delayed until the 2019 proxy season.
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Depending on their institutional shareholder base, issuers will also want to consider any voting recommendations issued by such institutional shareholders that may, in some instances, exceed the ISS and GL guidelines. Copies of the ISS 2018 Benchmark Proxy Guidelines can be accessed here and the GL Proxy Paper Guideline Recommendations can be accessed here.
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While AI can help resolve data issues in sustainable investing, it can create problems such as information breaches and inherent bias in data.
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