United States SEC Fines Goldman Sachs Asset Management $4 Million for Failure in ESG Policies, Branding & Marketing Funds as ESG to Meet Investors Dem
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United States SEC Fines Goldman Sachs Asset Management $4 Million for Failure in ESG Policies, Branding & Marketing Funds as ESG to Meet Investors Demand 24th November 2022 | Hong Kong
The United States Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined Goldman Sachs Asset Management $4 million for failure in ESG policies & processes (Environmental, Social & Governance), including no written ESG policies & processes (2017 to 2018) and failing to follow the ESG policies & processes in 2020. United States SEC Deputy Director of Division of Enforcement and Head of Climate & ESG Task Force Sanjay Wadhwa: “In response to investor demand, advisers like Goldman Sachs Asset Management are increasingly branding and marketing their funds and strategies as ‘ESG’ … … When they do, they must establish reasonable policies and procedures governing how the ESG factors will be evaluated as part of the investment process, and then follow those policies and procedures, to avoid providing investors with information about these products that differs from their practices.” United States SEC Co-Chief of the Enforcement Division’s Asset Management Unit Andrew Dean: “Today’s action reinforces that investment advisers must develop and adhere to their policies and procedures over their investment processes, including ESG research, to ensure investors receive the advisory services they would expect to receive from an ESG investment.” See below for United States SEC statement
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United States SEC Deputy Director of Division of Enforcement and Head of Climate & ESG Task Force Sanjay Wadhwa: “In response to investor demand, advisers like Goldman Sachs Asset Management are increasingly branding and marketing their funds and strategies as ‘ESG’ … … When they do, they must establish reasonable policies and procedures governing how the ESG factors will be evaluated as part of the investment process, and then follow those policies and procedures, to avoid providing investors with information about these products that differs from their practices.”
United States SEC Co-Chief of the Enforcement Division’s Asset Management Unit Andrew Dean: “Today’s action reinforces that investment advisers must develop and adhere to their policies and procedures over their investment processes, including ESG research, to ensure investors receive the advisory services they would expect to receive from an ESG investment.”
United States SEC Fines Goldman Sachs Asset Management $4 Million
Goldman Sachs, United States SEC Charges Goldman Sachs Asset Management for Failing to Follow its Policies and Procedures Involving ESG Investments
22/11/22 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P. (GSAM) for policies and procedures failures involving two mutual funds and one separately managed account strategy marketed as Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investments. To settle the charges, GSAM agreed to pay a $4 million penalty.
The SEC’s order finds that, from April 2017 until February 2020, GSAM had several policies and procedures failures involving the ESG research its investment teams used to select and monitor securities. From April 2017 until June 2018, the company failed to have any written policies and procedures for ESG research in one product, and once policies and procedures were established, it failed to follow them consistently prior to February 2020. For example, the order finds that GSAM’s policies and procedures required its personnel to complete a questionnaire for every company it planned to include in each product’s investment portfolio prior to the selection; however, personnel completed many of the ESG questionnaires after securities were already selected for inclusion and relied on previous ESG research, which was often conducted in a different manner than what was required in its policies and procedures. GSAM shared information about its policies and procedures, which it failed to follow consistently, with third parties, including intermediaries and the funds’ board of trustees.
“In response to investor demand, advisers like Goldman Sachs Asset Management are increasingly branding and marketing their funds and strategies as ‘ESG,’” said Sanjay Wadhwa, Deputy Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement and head of its Climate and ESG Task Force. “When they do, they must establish reasonable policies and procedures governing how the ESG factors will be evaluated as part of the investment process, and then follow those policies and procedures, to avoid providing investors with information about these products that differs from their practices.”
“Today’s action reinforces that investment advisers must develop and adhere to their policies and procedures over their investment processes, including ESG research, to ensure investors receive the advisory services they would expect to receive from an ESG investment,” said Andrew Dean, Co-Chief of the Enforcement Division’s Asset Management Unit.
GSAM consented to the entry of the SEC’s order finding that it violated Section 206(4) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and Rule 206(4)-7. Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, GSAM agreed to a cease-and-desist order, a censure, and a $4 million penalty.
The SEC’s investigation was conducted by Salvatore Massa and Stephen Holden under the supervision of Mr. Dean with the Enforcement Division’s Asset Management Unit in the New York Regional Office.
The Division of Enforcement’s Climate and ESG Task Force was formed in March 2021. Among other things, it analyzes disclosure and compliance issues relating to investment advisers’ and funds’ ESG strategies. More information about the Task Force can be found here.
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