Canada Securities Watchdog Seeks First Greenwashing Sanction

Canada Securities Watchdog Seeks First Greenwashing Sanction

(Bloomberg) — Canada’s biggest securities regulator is taking its first enforcement action related to so-called greenwashing by a fund manager. The Ontario Securities Commission is alleging Toronto-based Purpose Investments Inc. made statements about how it incorporated environmental, social and governance factors that were “misleading, untrue, and in conflict with the prospectuses of the funds it…

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