In remarks before the National Press Club, the CEO of Broadridge, the nation’s largest shareholder communications company, called on all CEOs to encourage individual shareholders, including employee shareholders, to vote their proxies. In 2010, just one in 20 individual retail investors voiced their opinions about the companies they invested in by exercising their fundamental shareholder right. That […]
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2010 Proxy Season
James McRitchie, 07/28/2010 ,
Robert Kropp, writing for SocialFunds.com, ran a recent series of three posts interviewing people on the passing proxy season. First up was Environmental Shareowner Resolutions Gain Record Levels of Support in 2010 Proxy Season, in which Kropp interviewed Michael Passoff of As You Sow. Looking back on shareowner vote totals for first-time environmental resolutions over […]
SEC IAC Report
James McRitchie, 02/22/2010 ,
The following is a quick summary from Peter DeSimone, Director of Programs of the Social Investment Forum of what happened at the beginning portion of Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting today. First, the IAC as a whole adopted a recusal policy (draft) that recognizes that each IAC member represents specific […]
SIF Funds Outperformed
James McRitchie, 01/22/2010 ,
A review of 160 socially responsible mutual funds from 22 members of the Social Investment Forum (SIF) finds that the vast majority of the funds — 65 percent — outperformed their benchmarks in calendar year 2009, most by significant margins. These SRI funds topped benchmarks across nearly all asset classes, including balanced, large cap, small […]
Archives: December 2002
James McRitchie, 12/30/2002 ,