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The Cost of Limiting Shareholder Voice: How New Restrictions Threaten Economic Growth, Frederick Alexander, Observer, September 10, 2025

US States’ Climate Ambition Under Threat, Emmy Hawker, ESG Investor, April 16, 2025

As Washington upends regulation and silences dissent, shareholders can fight back with system stewardship, Frederick Alexander, Impact Alpha, March 23, 2025

Commentary: How Investors Can Tackle Poverty Wages for Long-Term Gains, Sara Murphy, Pensions and Investments, December 26, 2024

More Than a Numbers Game, Frederick Alexander, ESG Investor, October 11, 2024

How Reducing Income Inequality Can Strengthen the Global Economy and Portfolio Performance, Sara E. Murphy, Impact Alpha, May 20, 2024

The Investor Case for a Living Wage, Sara E. Murphy, Fast Company, April 4, 2024

This Proxy Season, Watch for Signs of Shareholder, Not Stakeholder, Primacy, Peter Vanham, Fortune, February 29, 2024

The Portfolio Value of ESG, Fredrick Alexander, Directors & Boards, February 5, 2024

Inside the Activist Investor Campaign to Make Walgreens, Target, and Kroger Give Workers a Raise, Rick Wartzman, Fast Company, January 24, 2024

Shareholders Are People, Too, Matt Levine, Bloomberg, January 22, 2024
Press Archive
2023
- Decision on Lawsuit Against Facebook Will Decide How Companies Measure Financial Success, Frederick Alexander, Institutional Investor, December 19, 2023
- Making ESG the Highest Form of Capitalism, Frederick Alexander, Investing ESG, August 29, 2023
- Investors can Play Their Part in the War on Superbugs, Financial Times, May 24, 2023
- Voting for Diversified Investors, ESG Investor, May 5, 2023
- LGIM Won’t Shy Away from Voting Against Directors, Responsible Investor, April 4, 2023
- Amundi, Hesta, and LGIM team up on ARM Proposals at McDonalds, Resposible Investor, March 22, 2023
- Tyson Foods and Hormel shareholders to vote on antimicrobials, Ben Maiden, Corporate Secretary, January 24, 2023
- ESG resolution round-up: Amundi and Hesta co-file on AMR at US meat giantPaul Verney, Responsible Investor, January 20, 2023
2022
- The Flaw in Anti-ESG Logic: Financial Interests of Companies Like Meta Don’t Always Align with Those of Its ShareholdersFredrick Alexander, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, December 5, 2022
- Investors push food companies to go greener, Sarah Murray, Financial Times, October 19, 2022
- ESG round-up: Meta sued for prioritizing profits over investors and society, Fiona McNally, Responsible Investor, October 4, 2022
- Tanking one holding to boost returns and reduce risks across your portfolio, Dan Keeler, Impact Alpha, September 20, 2022
- Why the Energy Crisis is Triggering an Investment Rethink,Vibeka Mair, Capital Monitor, September 7, 2022
- From Meta to Twitter, What Everyone Gets Wrong About ESG — And Why It Matters,Frederick Alexander, Institutional Investor, August 24, 2022
- Can investors respond to the systemic risks gun violence poses to the American economy?, Dennis Price, Amy Cortese Impact Alpha, May 31, 2022
- Shareholders test their power with votes at Exxon, Chevron, BlackRock and McD’s, Amy Cortese, Impact Alpha, May 24, 2022
- Reformer pitches Musk trendy “public benefit” structure for TwitterRoss Kerber, Reuters, May 4, 2022
- The SEC Wants Companies To Disclose Climate Risk – But Retirement Savers Still Have Plenty To Worry About, Elena Botella, Forbes, March 23, 2022
- Pfizer set to face Covid-19 vaccine shareholder votes, Ben Maiden, Corporate Secretary, March 7, 2022
- Shareholders Like Any Old Merger, Matt Levine, Bloomberg, February 14, 2022
- HESTA files first ESG proposals in the US at Meta and Hormel Foods on threats to diversified investors,Paul Verney, Responsible Investor, January 26, 2022
- Activist group pushes Hormel for better antibiotic reporting in shareholder proposal, Brooks Johnson, Star Tribune, January 7, 2022
2021
- The ESG Mirage, Cam Simpson, Akshat Rathi, and Saijel Kishan, Bloomberg, December 9, 2021
- Alpha, Omicron: Why?, Craig Lazzara, Indexology Blog, December 2, 2021
- On System Stewardship, Matt Levine, Bloomberg, Fall 2021
- “Investors ‘Turn Up The Heat’ On SEC Over Voting Rights”, Neanda Salvaterra, Agenda, August 27 2021
- “NGO seeks investors for universal owner-based proxy advice drive“, Susanna Rust, Investment and Pensions Europe, Aug 24, 2021
- “‘Shareholder Voice Is Being Muted on Critical Social and Environmental Issues’: Investors Write to US regulator”, Vibeka Mair, Responsible Investor, Aug 24, 2021
- “From Board Rooms To The Oval Office: Stakeholder Capitalism Policy Based On Inclusive Economic Growth”, Christopher Marquis, Forbes, July 12, 2021
- “Stakeholders Incorporated: Can Capitalism Change if Company Charters Stay The Same?”Sarah Murray, Financial Times, August 6, 2021
- “The 2021 Proxy Voting Season in 7 Charts”, Jackie Cook, Lauren Solberg, Morningstar, August 5, 2021
- “Impact management gets a boost from the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing”, Dennis Price, Impact Alpha, June 21, 2021
- When ‘Doing Good’ Isn’t Enough: The Shareholder Commons Shapes Proposals That Push Business To Prioritize People And Planet”, Christopher Marquis, Forbes, July 12, 2021
- “The Brief: Public benefit corporations go public, EVs-as-a-service, renewables in Africa, buzzword bingo, Europe’s sustainability reporting directive”Editorial Team, Impact Alpha, June 21, 2021
- “A stock market test for stakeholder capitalism as public benefit corporations go public”,Dennis Price, Impact Alpha, June 21, 2021
- “Getting Back To Business”, Russ Greene, Adam Millsap, City Journal, June 15, 2021
- “Investors May Not Be Satisfied With Business As Usual”, Neanda Salvaterra, Agenda, June 14, 2021
- “Three resolutions that show investors are taking notice of health”, Liam Crosby, ShareAction, May 14, 2021
- “Proxy advisor PIRC recommends vote against Chevron CEO,”Reuters Staff, Reuters, May 12, 2021
- “Green investors seek to ‘change the DNA of the corporation’”, Corbin Hiar, ClimateWire, May 10, 2021
- “Boards Face Rash of Public Benefit Proposals”, Neanda Salvatera, Agenda, May 10, 2021
- “The 2021 proxy season: What’s on the menu?”, Aman Singh, BusinessGreen, May 7, 2021
- “Amundi Files Proposal with McDonald’s Calling for Transparency on Antibiotic Use in Supply Chain”, Mark Segal, ESG Today, May 6, 2021
- “Activists Hedge Funds Deploy ESG as New ‘Attack Vector’”, Lydia Tomkiw, Fundfire, Apr 21, 2021
- “Shareholder Activism: Woke Capitalism From The Inside”, Robert Stilson, The American Conservative, Apr 19, 2021
- “Beta Activism: Benefit Corporations and External Cost Disclosure”,Frederick Alexander, Sara E. Murphy, Proxy Review, Mar 16, 2021
- “The Shareholder Commons offers a new approach to ESG activism”, Cydney Posner, Cooley, Mar 10, 2021
- “A Critical Audit Matter: It’s Time For Auditors To Come Clean On Climate Change”Robert Eccles, Forbes, Mar 10, 2021
- “Curing systemic portfolio risk through shareholder resolutions”, Paul Hodgson, Responsible Investor, Mar 8, 2021
- “Bank of England’s climate mandate has global resonance”, Patrick Temple West, Financial Times, Mar 5, 2021
- “The Shareholder Commons Announces Withdrawal of Shareholder Proposal after Yum! Brands Commits to Disclose Systemic Costs of Antibiotic Use”,Mar 3, 2021
- “An Introduction to Activist Stewardship”, Robert Eccles (Oxford University), Aeisha Mastagni (CalSTRS), and Kirsty Jenkinson (CalSTRS), Mar 1, 2021
- “Why be a stakeholder corp when you can be a B-Corp, and it actually mean something”,Paul Hodgson, Responsible Investor, Feb 5, 2021.
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Press Releases
Shareholder Lawsuit Charges Meta Platforms with Prioritizing Profits over Shareholders, October 4, 2022
The Shareholder Commons Unveils New Investor Strategy for Shielding Portfolios from Climate Change and Public Health Threats, September 20, 2022
The Shareholder Commons Issues Open Letter to Elon Musk Regarding Twitter Take Private, May 4, 2022
The Shareholder Commons Reaches Agreement to Withdraw Shareholder Proposal, October 18, 2021
Investors Must Hold Companies Accountable for Creating Systemic Risks, Says The Shareholder Commons in their Report on the 2021 Proxy Season, August 16, 2021
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