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GEORGE TOWN: Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) have been urged to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices into their business operations to gain more opportunities in the global market. Entrepreneurship Development and Cooperatives Minister Datuk Ewon Benedick (pix) said currently, more and more large companies, government-linked companies (GLCs) and multinational companies (MNCs) are…
SEPTEMBER 22 — In the 1970s, Milton Friedman talked about the purpose of a corporation. He argued that a corporation had only one purpose — to make profits for its shareholders. For over three decades, this was the prevailing logic in the global economic system. But after the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, and especially…
Bursa Malaysia Bhd has inked a memorandum of understanding with the stock exchanges of Indonesia and Thailand to explore an inter-regional environmental, social and governance-linked ecosystem to drive business value creation and sustainable development in Asean. Read full story
KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia Bhd has inked a memorandum of understanding with the stock exchanges of Indonesia and Thailand to explore the establishment of an inter-regional environmental, social and governance (ESG)-linked ecosystem that drives business value creation and fosters sustainable development in Asean. Read full story
SEPTEMBER 18 — The latest report on NY Post on 26th August 2023, Blackrock’s CEO Larry Fink announced emphatically that the ESG movement, which it founded, has gone too far, and BlackRock will be part of the solution to prevent its excesses from destroying the US economy. Let me remind everyone again of what this…
Although Malaysia is ranked mid-range globally in terms of environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting, the country is still considered to be far ahead of its regional peers, says Grant Thornton Malaysia. Read full story
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 — The National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (NCCIM) calls on the government to establish a RM2 billion environment, social and governance (ESG) fund to assist small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in initiating ESG commitments. Its president Tan Sri Soh Thian Lai recommended the government to include this initiative…
KUALA LUMPUR: The National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (NCCIM) calls on the government to establish a RM2 billion environment, social and governance (ESG) fund to assist small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in initiating ESG commitments. Its president Tan Sri Soh Thian Lai (pix) recommended the government to include this initiative in the…
(Aug 29): A London-based money manager has just attached an ESG label to a bitcoin exchange-traded fund, in a move that has environmental experts doing…
AUGUST 21 — I have written this elsewhere in some details and do not want to sound like a broken record. As Elon Musk would have put it, it is satanic, quote “Elon Musk says “ESG (environmental, social and governance) is the devil” with tobacco firms trouncing Tesla in social responsibility ratings”. This is not…