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Oh really?
Did you not just see a prime example of what happens when "ESG" takes over a corporation? Why, you did. It's called Twitter.
Three quarters of the people, all hired with "ESG" in mind, were just fired by Musk who as a private owner has zero obligation to any such so-called "principle." The various screaming parties in the ESG cult all predicted immediate doom and disaster. No such disaster has occurred; the firm's only service it provides to the public is running just fine with one quarter of the staffing load -- and thus cost -- it used to have.
If you think Twitter is unique in this regard you're too stupid to
have a retirement and deserve to lose every cent of whatever you claim to be "investing."
Let's put this in simple terms:
If "ESG" is a net positive for a company then nobody has to exempt anything or make it a separate subject of consideration and in fact doing so is stupid because if it in fact makes the firm more competitive and operating at a lower cost per unit of output it wins all on its own.
What the Department of Labor has
said by issuing this advisory is that
your "retirement plan" can now be
disadvantaged to any degree whatsoever, including losing all of it,
when (not if) these "ESG" initiatives cause the firms invested in to underperform or fail outright
and when that occurs you can't sue the plan provider for violating their fiduciary responsibility to you as the true owner of the asset.
In other words the Department of Labor is
formally admitting that these "ESG" initiatives are
not to the benefit of the firm's operating results
and thus are also not to your benefit as an investor. This fact has now become a formal
admission by our Federal Government.
What's worse?
This "rule" amounts to an admission of collusive price-fixing -- albeit indirect -- between what are supposed to be competing firms. Under 100+ year old law that is a serious criminal felony.
You
will get screwed out of trillions of dollars over the coming years as a result of this and
you are responsible for that screwing because
you have and continue to permit this sort of rank corruption to take place without demanding it stop and backing up that demand with whatever is necessary to eliminate it.