Lobby correspondence: the investment community's appetite for non-financial information has never been so voracious. In order to assure itself that companies' actions match their CSR rhetoric, it now wants them to report on what they are doing to persuade legislators to act in their interests. Scott Payton explains the implications of this trend

Investor relations used to be simple: a couple of times a year, companies would update fund managers and analysts on how much money they had made and how much they [...]