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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 giant Paul Verney, Responsible Investor, January 20, 2023
The Flaw in Anti-ESG Logic: Financial Interests of Companies Like Meta Don’t Always Align with Those of Its Shareholders Fredrick 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 Twitter Ross 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
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
“Think tank calls for stricter fiduciary mandates on money managers”, Hazel Bradford, Pensions and Investments, June 30, 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
“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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