Kentucky AG legal opinion: ESG investing is a breach of an asset manager’s fiduciary duty

Bottomline commonsense: “While asset owners may pursue a social purpose or “sacrifice some performance on their investments to achieve an ESG goal,”25 investment managers entrusted to make financial investments for Kentucky’s public pension systems must be single-minded in their motivation and actions and their decisions must be “[s]olely in the interest of the members and beneficiaries [and for] the exclusive purpose of providing benefits[26] to members and beneficiaries.” Read the entire letter.

SEC Commissioner Peirce trashes proposed ESG rules as unneeded nonsense

It’s already against the law to lie to investors and “the proposals we are voting on today will fail of their purpose because they are not so much built on sand as they float on a cloud of smoke, false promises, and internal contradiction.” [Web | PDF]