Sentences with phrase «shareholder engagement»

Whereas with socially responsible investments, if they do shareholder engagement your vote will be used to push that company toward greater transparency, greater disclosure, greater sustainability.

In particular, it highlights noteworthy topics we discussed beyond typical governance practices; namely shareholder engagement and the promotion of female participation in the workforce.

I am not saying I know how we will do this — that is why shareholder engagement and guidance is so important.

What they have said since then is that they tried shareholder engagement, talking to their friends, sometimes family members involved in this business, and they were unable to shift the needle.

In today's environment of rising shareholder engagement, boards ignore shareholders at their peril.

At Trillium Asset Management, Simon Billenness pioneered the use of shareholder engagement of companies operating in countries with repressive regimes.

He is responsible for assessing the ESG performance of existing and potential portfolio companies, and works on shareholder engagement initiatives related to a wide range of sustainability issues.

A Queen's University business law professor aims to shed light on the process and effectiveness of shareholder engagement with the help of a federal government grant announced earlier this week.

Proxy Impact also offers a full range of shareholder engagement services on social and environmental issues including filing resolutions and corporate dialogues.

Its MER is well over 2 %, but Meritas has been at the forefront of shareholder engagement in Canada.

Mr. Smith joined Walden in 2000 to lead Walden's ongoing shareholder engagement program to promote greater corporate leadership on ESG issues.

It outsources its work to great organizations, like Sustainalytics (for ESG analysis), SHARE (for shareholder engagement), and it even invests a small portion of its portfolio in microfinance through MicroVest.

Advising the board on activist shareholders, institutional shareholders and overall shareholder engagement.

Listed To what extent is Manulife's shareholder engagement focused on proxy season?

Under Bruce's direction Newground, in conjunction with sister firm Investor Voice, has led hundreds of successful shareholder engagements with corporations on a wide range of ESG and sustainability issues.

US SIF Comments on DOL Field Bulletin on the fiduciary standards under ERISA relating to proxy voting and shareholder engagement activities, and consideration of «economically targeted investments.»

Hobley advocated for continued shareholder engagement, but only with the threat of divestment as a necessary alternative.

«Pax World has been in this space for a very long time, and they also perform shareholder engagement, which is why I really like them,» Tim Nash told me in our interview.

«I took a page from the mainstream activists and corporate raiders like Carl Icahn,» said Natasha Lamb, director of equity research and shareholder engagement at Arjuna Capital.

November 16, 2017 K&S in a list of firms with Wachtell, Cadwalader, Paul Weiss, and Skadden, who handle shareholder engagements / activist investor work

Proxy Impact is a progressive proxy voting and shareholder engagement service for foundations, NGOs, and other mission - based or socially responsible investors.

highlights investment vehicles and strategies, including shareholder engagement, in which investors can participate to increase economic opportunities for women in the United States and around the world.

They included: complete fossil fuel divestment; shareholder engagement with energy firms to advocate environmental concerns; frequent proxy voting on the resolutions of coal, oil and gas companies; educational outreach to politicians and the public to convey the gravity of rising emissions; tax incentives; steadfast energy research; and global emissions pricing.

Not all index funds do shareholder engagement: the iShares Jantzi Social Index Fund (XEN) doesn't do it, but the US - listed iShares SRI funds do [These are the iShares MSCI Socially Responsible (DSI) and iShares MSCI Select Socially Responsible (KLD).]

A recent SEC decision allowing EOG Resources, one of the largest U.S. independent oil & gas companies, to exclude a shareholder resolution on GHG emissions reduction targets goes against past precedent, and may be a harbinger of further limits on shareholder engagement.

Political Contributions 2012 discusses the emerging issue of corporate political spending in the context of shareholder engagement.

With a background in civil rights advocacy, Amina has a special appreciation for the impact of working for social and economic justice through investing and shareholder engagement.

Full proxy service providing proxy voting guidelines, electronic proxy voting and proxy vote reporting, proxy vote consulting, shareholder engagement and advocacy services on social and environmental issues.

We provide our clients environmental, social and governance (ESG) proxy voting guidelines; timely and accurate proxy voting and reporting; and customized consulting and shareholder engagement services.

Fewer — though still a notable proportion of — respondents point to a firm's quality of shareholder engagement (51 percent) and «the availability of its board members to communicate directly with shareholders» (39 percent).

During the past year, the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee met with management and reviewed matters that included the design, amounts, and effectiveness of the Company's compensation of senior executives, management succession planning, the Company's benefit and compensation programs, the Company's human resources programs, including review of workplace discrimination and harassment reports, and feedback from the Company's shareholder engagement.

Political Contributions: A Glass Lewis Issue Report discusses the emerging issue of corporate political spending in the context of shareholder engagement.

«In terms of what companies are doing wrong: First, underestimating the knowledge and sophistication of institutional investors... Second, misinterpreting the shareholder engagement process... Third, paying big bonuses on operating metrics when shareholders have lost money.

Another strategy, which is important to many passive investors, is shareholder engagement.

Meritas has a long record of shareholder engagement, which the iShares ETF does not share.

And that's why I really like the shareholder engagement approach.

IEN supports learning on a variety of sustainable investing strategies, such as ESG integration, impact investing, shareholder engagement, that will make a significant and critical contribution to creating a healthy, just, and sustainable society.

Sadly, this ETF does not participate in shareholder engagement.

It is clear that shareholder engagement has a long way to go to reach even the majority of the 200 list.

Shareholder engagement with fossil fuel companies has a long long way to go (maybe they should just divest...)

• Shareholder engagement on composition of the board, strategic direction, and the alignment of compensation with performance will continue.

Her representative matters include advising boards and companies on board and disclosure issues, including director independence, board and committee structure, securities law compliance, board leadership structures, board composition, proxy disclosure, listing standards, shareholder proposals, shareholder engagement and relationships, annual meetings, committee charters, listing standards and the impact of proxy advisory firms.