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As the SEC Takes on Greenwashing, Here’s What Hedge Funds Need to Know

In this edition of Wells Fargo Prime Services Industry and Regulatory Updates newsletter, Silver’s Head of ESG Strategy, Trysha Daskam, explores trends in “greenwashing” and offers initial steps any hedge fund considering ESG strategies should embrace.

The SEC—just like seemingly every investor, business, policymaker and regulator in the world—is taking a closer look at ESG. It is among the OCIE’s 2020 Exam Priorities. Has the rise in ESG-branded products led to greenwashing? What is greenwashing? In the most recent addition of Wells Fargo Prime Services Industry and Regulatory Updates newsletter, Trysha Daskam, Silver’s Head of ESG Strategy, explores these trends and offers initial steps any hedge fund considering ESG strategies should embrace to lay a strong foundation for their ESG programs.

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