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Allianz subsidiary RCM has published its Sustainability White Paper, which analyzed a 5 year period and concluded that applying ESG factors to a portfolio does not negatively impact performance and may enhance it.
RCM described posed the key question as whether ESG is an opportunity or opportunity cost, anddescribed itsconclusions as follows:
BDTI will be holding a seminar(panel discussion) onthe most importanttopics regarding amendment of the CompanyLaw,whichhas been underdebate/discussion by the MOJLegal System Advisory Committee for more than a year. Two members of thekey Committee will be on the panel, as well as one of Japan's most respected practicing lawyers.
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BDTIwould very grateful if all those potential donors who are too embarrassed to give only 4,000 or 5,000 Yen would come out of the woodwork and donate by following the simpleinstructions here.Thanks in advance!
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BDTI has teamed up with UCLA Anderson Executive Education andprofessional firmsto provide world-class director training programs in Japan. For more details, click here to downloadPress Release, or read the full text below.
For Immediate Release
Recently the UK law firm of Allen & Overy released its EU Corporate Governance Report, whichpresents theilluminatingresults of a survey of EU respondents' opinions on various corporate governance topics.
The document is available in BDTI's data library at: http://bdti.mastertree.jp/f/2fdsr6ay.
Here are some excerpts:
Foreward
OnBDTI's Japanese discussion forum, you can download all the responses we have received so farto our survey on who and what are responsible for Fukushima?As you might guess, manyof the responses are pithy and from the heart, and seem to indicate achange in the mood of the populusregarding the need to to improvecorporate governace and risk management.
BDTI is doing an informal survey of opinions among Japanese persons on the topic of: who is responsible for Fukushima, and what structural factors caused it to happen (or aggravated it)?
The British Chamber of Commerce in Japan's magazine, Acumen, published an interview with Representative Director Nicholas Benes about BDTI. Since we will be undertaking a fundraising drive soon, we hope this article willhelp us locate potential donorsand acquaint them with us.Pleasesend it around!
http://bccjacumen.com/issues/2011/06/social-entrepreneurship/
Working paper by David F. Larcker and Anastasia A Zakolyukina at Stanford:We find that answers of deceptive executives have more references to general knowledge, fewer non-extreme positive emotions, and fewer references to shareholders value and value creation. In addition, deceptive CEOs use signicantly fewer self-references, more third person plural and impersonal pronouns, more extreme positive emotions, fewer extreme negative emotions, and fewer certainty and hesitation words.
