{"id":83337,"date":"2022-12-09T00:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T05:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=83337"},"modified":"2022-12-09T01:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:05:26","slug":"activist-investor-calls-for-blackrock-ceo-fink-to-step-down-over-esg-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2022\/activist-investor-calls-for-blackrock-ceo-fink-to-step-down-over-esg-hypocrisy.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist investor calls for BlackRock CEO Fink to step down over ESG \u2018hypocrisy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BLK\/\">BlackRock<\/a> CEO Larry Fink is facing calls to step down from activist investor Bluebell Capital over the company\u2019s alleged \u201chypocrisy\u201d on its environmental, social and governance (ESG) messaging. Fink has become an outspoken proponent of \u201cstakeholder capitalism\u201d and in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/18\/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-says-stakeholder-capitalism-is-not-woke.html\">annual letter to CEOs earlier this year<\/a>, pushed back against accusations that the giant asset manager was using its size to push a political agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/12\/07\/activist-investor-calls-for-blackrock-ceo-fink-to-step-down-over-esg-hypocrisy.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC)BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is facing calls to step down from activist investor Bluebell Capital over the company\u2019s alleged \u201chypocrisy\u201d on its environmental, social and governance (ESG) messaging. Fink has become an outspoken proponent of \u201cstakeholder capitalism\u201d and in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83338,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83337\/revisions\/83338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}