Dodd Frank Act at 5 Year Mark Now
There is Still Work to Do In 2007, the dominoes started to fall. The debt auction rate market caught cold, leading in time to the broad capital markets and housing markets catching pneumonia. Down went the dominoes – click/click/click – US housing prices plunged, lender foreclosures skyrocketed, equity share prices plummeted – and trillions’ of dollars of accumulated wealth disappeared – poof! There were many players involved in the drama – commercial banks, investment banks, credit rating agencies, federal regulators, borrowers themselves – and as the dominoes fell, government officials responded. The TARP money flowed to the top banks, and then many banks beyond the money centers. Federal dollars saved the US auto industry. “Zero” rates at the Fed borrowing windows are still the rule. And the US Senate and House of Representatives and the White House responded with a comprehensive package of statutes we call “The Dodd Frank Act.” Dodd-Frank rules are in place to govern certain private sector activities and the rule making is continuing. Did the legislation (and operating rules) cover all the bases? Opinion is mixed on this. We asked Lisa Woll, executive director of the influential Forum for Sustainable & Responsible Investing (US|SIF) for her views on Dodd-Frank at the five year mark. Our Sustainability Update blog post has her perspectives this week: http://ga-institute.com/Sustainability-Update/dodd-frank-act-at-5-years-not-quite-done-in-rulemaking/. The US|SIF is the asset management and related parties’ trade association for those institutions and organizations advancing sustainable & responsible investing approaches in the capital markets. G&A Institute is a member organization. The US|SIF has several working groups, including SIRAN – the Sustainable Investing Research Analyst Network, with more than 100 members participating. G&A Institute's Louis Coppola is co-chair of SIRAN’s “Sustainable Education and Companies Meeting Committee,” (SECE) with co-chair Mike Lombardo of the Calvert Group. Public companies are invited to meet with SIRAN members to discuss sustainability, responsibility, citizenship, and other activities of interest to the SIRAN membership. Recent company meetings include Intel, Microsoft and AT&T. If your company is interested in these kinds of activities, let Louis (lcoppola@ga-institute.com) and Mike know. We invite you to tune in to Lisa Woll’s views on The Dodd-Frank Act at the five year mark: http://ga-institute.com/Sustainability-Update/dodd-frank-act-at-5-years-not-quite-done-in-rulemaking/. Top Story of the Week Volkswagen and the dark side of corporate sustainability
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