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Oklahoma should follow Texas’ lead and remove @BlackRock from its anti-ESG blacklist, writes Bartlesville banker and Vice-Mayor Trevor Dorsey: “It’s time to drop the political fight and allow free market principles that limit government intervention and expand competition to.

A new Texas law will require proxy advisors relying on ESG or other nonpecuniary factors to make disclosures about their shareholder voting recommendations, says an advisory from Vinson & Elkins.

Some critics of ESG and DEI investing are now setting up their own socially conscious investments, avoiding companies that have any pro- ESG or DEI policies in place at all, @WSJ reports.

Texas pension funds and state investment accounts can again do business with the world’s largest asset manager, after a nearly three-year blacklist from that sought to punish Wall Street firms for their climate policies, @WSJ writes.

Virtue investing is expensive. According to @semafor a handful of new conservative ETFs have beaten the broader market this year, but "are far more expensive than the benchmarks they, to varying degrees, deviate from."

Partisans can debate “woke” or “unwoke” investments. But for those who want pensions, public finance, and retirement plans to focus purely on financial factors, this trend is getting tiresome.

Some hopeful retirement news: @Fidelity says workers are saving 14.3% of their incomes in average 401(k) accounts — a new record that’s close to the recommended 15%.

Americans generally say you need $1.5 million to retire, according to Investopedia, but citing Federal Reserve numbers, they report only about 2.5% of Americans have $1 million or more in their retirement accounts.

Some of the loudest critics of putting politics, culture, and ideology in front of financial considerations in investments are now actively working to put politics, culture, and ideology in front of financial factors.

Seven retired NYC firefighters to the city’s comptroller: “We urge you to remember this: when we ran into burning buildings, we didn’t ask what political ideals or beliefs our fellow firefighters had. We had one mission, and we stuck to it. Your mission as Comptroller should be.

At a time when the Federal Reserve says the median retirement savings is only $200,000 for Americans between 65-74 years of age, @TIAAInstitute reports that many of the country’s 20-somethings are off to a better start than previous generations.

The number of ESG shareholder resolutions voted on at U.S. companies has fallen a third so far this year, according to @MorningstarInc That follows three years of steep growth. The average level of support for those? 23 percent.

A group of retired NYC firefighters want the city’s pension plans to stick to business. “These retirement funds were never meant to be tools for political expression,” they write. “They were built to ensure that after decades of hard, often dangerous work, city workers are able

Over half of Gen Z workers only use savings accounts to store their money, and 35 percent said it’s because they “lack knowledge on where to start.” The @TIAAInstitute reveals a key area for financial education.

Of the 106 anti-ESG bills filed in 32 states this year, only 11 received approval, and in just 10 states, according to the 2025 Statehouse Report from @PleiadesStrat

In a letter, retired NYC firefighters blast the city comptroller for mixing politics into pension decisions: “These policies may make headlines and help raise political profiles, but they risk sacrificing long-term financial performance for short-term political wins. It’s not.

Auto-enrollment, mandated for many workers in a 2022 federal law, is one possible reason for Gen Z’s higher participation in employer-sponsored savings plans, according to the @TIAAInstitute

State legislatures approved only 11 of the 106 anti-ESG proposals introduced this year, according to the 2025 Statehouse Report from @PleiadesStrat In most cases, lawmakers put pensions and sound finance ahead of politics.

“Under your leadership, the pension system has increasingly embraced political and/or activist motivated strategies when evaluating investments,” writes seven retired firefighters in a letter to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander.

A report from the @TIAAInstitute shows 20 percent of workers in Generation Z (those born after 1996) are saving for retirement, and two-thirds of them are using 401(k) plans. Among those savers, 54 percent are women and 45 percent are men.