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The history of ESG: A journey towards sustainable investing

IBM Big Data Hub

1 Slowly but surely, institutional investors started to recognize that companies could potentially improve financial performance and risk management by focusing on ESG issues like greenhouse gas emissions. The total—$639 billion—shed light on how shareholders were starting to invest out of principle versus strictly profit.

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SOX Compliance Guide

Jet Global

We’ve created a comprehensive guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, also known as the SOX Act, to help you understand what’s in the act and why it’s important for your organization to have strong access controls and SOX compliant practices. What is SOX Compliance? Bush in July of the same year.