<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">The Wall Street Journal Sept 22, 2019</div><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">The Potentially High Cost of Not Disclosing ESG Data</b></span></p><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Activist investors push companies to disclose information about their environmental and social impact</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 128, 195); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 128, 195);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><i class="">By</i></span><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><i class="">Maitane Sardon</i></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Sept. 22, 2019 10:04 pm ET</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 11px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Many companies have resisted disclosing environmental, social and governance data out of fear of being shunned by investors. These days, not disclosing that information may be even more risky.</span></p><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp. learned that lesson in June when Legal & General Investment Management, Europe’s second-largest asset manager, removed the company from the holdings of its £5 billion ($6.2 billion) Future World funds, a fund group for investors who consider ESG criteria.</span></p><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The rest is behind paywall</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
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