Creating guardrails to protect our common interest
NEW: BETA STEWARDSHIP FOR SHAREHOLDERS
TSC recently launched a Beta Stewardship platform for Shareholders – click here to learn more!
Curious about Beta Stewardship? The first yearly edition of The Shareholder Commons’ (TSC) Beta Steward Proxy Review is out now.
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timely opportunities to take action
Click here to find out more about our work on media, markets, and systemic risk; The Case for media companies to convert to public benefit corporations
Click here to find out more about our COLLECTIVE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALs FOR a UNIVERSAL OWNER-BASED PROXY ADVISORY-ONLY SERVICE
the shareholder commons is tackling capital system failures that are endangering our future
Free market capitalism has made us healthier and wealthier for more than two centuries. But there is growing recognition of the costs we are paying for short-sighted business decisions that prioritize profits over our natural environment and human needs.
CAPITALISM IN CRISIS
MARKETS CONTINUE TO SEE EXTREME PROFITS EVEN AS ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS WEAKEN
Trust in market systems deteriorates while current business approaches to sustainability fail to address the systemic issues. In an increasingly stressed and stratified society, business as usual is not tenable.
WE CAN DO BETTER
Preserving Human Dignity and the Earth’s Abundance
The Shareholder Commons seeks to redesign the creative engine of market capitalism to respect the dignity of all human beings and preserve the earth’s bounty. We believe capital markets should distinguish between profits earned through authentic value creation and profits that come from unsustainable and inhumane practices.
AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH
COLLECTIVE ACTION
COLLECTIVE ACTION
the power of universal owners
By harnessing the power of universal owners—large institutional investors with diversified portfolios that have a financial interest in the well-being of the economy as a whole—we are working to ensure our capital markets give priority to long term systemic health over individual company profits.
the power of universal owners
By harnessing the power of universal owners — large institutional investors with diversified portfolios that have a financial interest in the wellbeing of the economy as a whole — we are working to ensure our capital markets give priority to long term systemic health before individual company profits.
LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
To allow profit-seeking to serve its vital role in pricing goods and services, universal owners should use collective action to establish minimum standards of sustainable business practices that will establish a level playing field for sustainable competition.
LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
To allow profit-seeking to serve its vital role in pricing goods and services, universal owners should use collective action to establish minimum standards of sustainable business practices that will establish a level playing field for sustainable competition.
OUR PLAN FOR CHANGE
Modify the discussion of business responsibility in the public arena to include the need for a systemic approach and collective action by investors.
Modify and clarify the laws and regulations that govern investing, in order to ensure that investors focus on systemic value as well as individual company value.
A REFRESHING LOOK AT FIDUCIARY DUTIES—Significant New Report Shows that All Institutional Investing Must Be Responsible Investing
The new report shows why investment professionals around the world are legally compelled to prioritize systemic issues such as climate change, inequality, and biodiversity loss over the financial performance of individual companies.
MEDIA, MARKETS, AND SYSTEMIC RISK —The Case for Media Companies to Convert to Public Benefit Corporations
On September 14, 2021, The Shareholder Commons initiated an investor campaign to convert media corporations to public benefit corporations (PBCs) with a specific purpose of providing accurate information.
The Allbirds IPO Is All Wet: When Some Shares Are More Equal Than Others
We write because of a concern that shareholder voice is being muted on critical social and environmental issues.
Our letter to the U.S. SEC on Exclusion of shareholder proposals implicating the significant policy issue of cost and risk externalization
We write because of a concern that shareholder voice is being muted on critical social and environmental issues.
Together, we're embarking on a fundamental transformation of our financial system...
