Investorgruppen Thirty Percent Coalition har fremsendt et åbent brev til U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) med forslag til regelændringer vedrørende mangfoldighed i selskabsbestyrelser.
Investorgruppen, med over 90 medlemmer, forvalter tilsammen mere end 8 billioner dollars.
De foreslåede regelændringer går ud på, at børsnoterede selskaber skal rapportere data om køn, race og etnicitet for at fremme gennemsigtighed. Investorgruppen henviser til forskning som belæg for, at selskaber med mangfoldige bestyrelser klarer sig bedre økonomisk.
Fra brevet:
Indeed, institutional investors and asset owners require transparency around diversity to make informed decisions about the companies in which they invest and for which they vote proxies. We recommend that all companies that trade on U.S. exchanges be required to disclose diversity metrics in the proxy statement or, if there is no proxy filing, in another appropriate document filed with the SEC, and suggest including sensible provisions to advance transparency, such as:
- Disclosure based on voluntary self-identification; and
- Reporting that disaggregates data by gender and each major ethnic, racial, and other major population segments, such as those included in EEO-1 reporting.
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