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  • Writer's pictureGustavo Bernal Torres

SEC Charges BNY Mellon Investment Adviser for Misstatements and Omissions on ESG Considerations

The SEC's ESG case suggests more enforcement is coming.

  • The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged BNY Mellon Investment Adviser, Inc. for misstatements and omissions about Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations in making investment decisions for certain mutual funds that it managed. To settle the charges, BNY Mellon Investment Adviser agreed to pay a $1.5 million penalty.

  • The SEC’s order finds that, from July 2018 to September 2021, BNY Mellon Investment Adviser represented or implied in various statements that all investments in the funds had undergone an ESG quality review, even though that was not always the case. The order finds that numerous investments held by certain funds did not have an ESG quality review score as of the time of investment.


Source: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-86

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