Climate Action 100+ calls for trade association accountability on climate change. 200 institutional investors with a combined $6.5 trillion in assets-under-management are calling on 47 of the largest US publicly traded corporations to align their climate lobbying with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Lobbying activities that are inconsistent with meeting climate goals are an investment […]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) operates retail stores in various formats worldwide and is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is coming up on 6/5/2015. ProxyDemocracy.org had the vote of one fund when I checked and voted on 5/31/2015. I voted with management 52% of the time and assigned Wal-Mart Stores Inc. a proxy score of 52. […]
My wife and I don’t have the resources to or stock holdings to allow us to file 75 proxy access shareholder proposals, like New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer’s Boardroom Accountability Project. However, I have been writing about proxy access for 20 years and, together with Les Greenberg, filed the petition in 2002 with the […]
Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), is one of the stocks in my portfolio. Their annual meeting is June 6, 2014. ProxyDemocracy.org had collected the votes of one fund when I checked and voted on 5/31/2014. I voted with management 58% of the time. View Proxy Statement. Read Warnings below. What follows are my recommendations on how to vote the WMT proxy in order to enhance […]
Yes, those of you who follow my disclosures may have noted that I recently added Wal-Mart. Yes, I bought it because Wal-Mart has because they have been going greener and because of the recent news that Wal-Mart Pledges to Promote Healthier Foods, WSJ, 1/20/2011. Then I read “researchers found that one new Walmart supercentre per […]