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Texas accuses BlackRock of energy company boycott in ESG clampdown

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Texas accuses BlackRock of energy company boycott in ESG clampdown
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Texas has declared that BlackRock and nine listed European financial groups “boycott energy companies”, subjecting their shares to potential divestment by state pension funds with billions of dollars under management.

The announcement by Glenn Hegar, Texas comptroller, escalates the campaign against environmental, social and governance investing in Republican-led US states. Florida on Tuesday passed a resolution banning its pension fund managers from taking ESG considerations into account with their investing strategies.

The US’s largest producer of oil and gas, Texas in 2021 passed a law that attacked ESG investing for potentially hurting the industry. The provisions require state pension and school funds to divest shares they hold in groups Texas has identified as boycotting energy companies.

The law defines an energy company boycott as “refusing to deal with, terminating business activities with, or otherwise taking any action that is intended to penalise, inflict economic harm on, or limit commercial relations with a company” in the fossil fuel industry that has not made certain environmental pledges.

Besides BlackRock, the Europe-based financial groups subject to divestment are BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Danske Bank, Jupiter Fund Management, Nordea Bank, Schroders, Svenska Handelsbanken, Swedbank and UBS. A list of 348 mutual funds were also marked for divestment.

The Teacher Retirement System of Texas says it is the 20th-largest public pension fund in the world, with $160bn in assets under management. It holds roughly $28mn of BlackRock shares or 0.3 per cent of the company, according to Bloomberg.

“The ESG movement has produced an opaque and perverse system in which some financial companies no longer make decisions in the best interest of their shareholders or their clients,” Hegar said on Wednesday.

State pension funds must notify the comptroller of their direct and indirect holdings, but Texas law provides some leeway over shares and mutual funds marked for divestment.

In a statement, BlackRock said it disagreed with the comptroller’s decision.

“This is not a fact-based judgment,” BlackRock said, adding that it has invested more than $100bn in Texas energy companies. “Elected and appointed public officials have a duty to act in the best interests of the people they serve.”

The company added: “Politicising state pension funds, restricting access to investments, and impacting the financial returns of retirees, is not consistent with that duty.”

Among its other investments, BlackRock-managed funds are the second-largest shareholder in ExxonMobil, the oil supermajor that has its headquarters in Texas.

UBS said it gave the comptroller evidence that it does not boycott energy companies: “We firmly disagree with the comptroller’s decision to include UBS in this list.”

Credit Suisse declined to comment, while the other financial groups were not immediately available for comment. Texas funds have negligible holdings in UBS and Credit Suisse.

Wednesday’s announcement does not affect BlackRock or the other nine groups’ investment management contracts with state pension funds. In the future, these contracts must include a statement that the asset manager “does not boycott energy companies”, Texas said. So long as the contractor provides these verifications, “the statute does not prohibit a state agency from contracting” with one of the 10 financial groups, Texas added.



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