Environmentalists want more transparency for investors on the ecological impact of bio-fuels, which are promoted as an alternative to fossil fuels.
Read MoreWhile more shareholders have been putting their foot down on excessive chief executive officer pay, not enough progress has been made, according to a new report by U.S.-based non-profit foundation As You Sow.
Read MoreIt has been raining in Nashville. I don’t mean a little rain, I mean 13.47 inches of rain through Feb. 23, a mere 3 inches shy of the record monthly rainfall we received in 2010, which unfortunately flooded my home and many others in the area. Needless to say, I’ve been more than a little worried about the weather.
Read MoreAs You Sow and Corporate Knights released today its sixth update of the Carbon Clean 200™, a list of the 200 publicly traded companies that are leading the way among their global peers to a clean energy future.
Read MoreMore large shareholders – including large asset managers and pension funds – are voting against CEO pay packages, according to US non-profit As You Sow.
Read MoreThe disparity between executive salaries and those of the workforce has been an issue of increasing scrutiny for a while as the gap has continued to widen. Now, a nonprofit shareholder advocacy group has assembled a list of the CEOs it says are the most overpaid in America.
Read MoreAmid massive layoffs, the CEOs of Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard have been named among the 100 most overpaid CEOs by a non-profit shareholder advocacy group.
Read MoreMost CEOs make a lot of money. No surprise there.
Read MoreProgressive lawmakers are currently pushing a bold resolution on climate change that they hope will set a course for Democratic presidential candidates and legislative efforts after the 2020 elections.
Read MoreA new report shows that the heads of Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts are among the United States' most overpaid CEOs.
Read MoreThe non-profit advocacy group As You Sow has released its 2019 "Most Overpaid CEOs" report and it includes two notable companies from the games industry. Both Activision's Bobby Kotick and Electronic Arts' Andrew Wilson appeared on the top 100 list, which is intended to promote corporate responsibility.
Read MoreAs You Sow, an organization dedicated to promoting corporate accountability, has published its annual list of top 100 “Most Overpaid CEOs,” which includes Activision Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick and Electronic Arts’ Andrew Wilson.
Read MoreIt is ironic that the letter from by Patty Long, interim CEO of the Plastics Industry Association, seeks to invoke ethics.
Read MoreRising income inequality has put CEO pay into sharp focus in recent years, at the same time that new regulations have forced public companies to disclose the ratio of top executive pay to that of their median worker.
Read MoreMore than one third of the largest companies in the country overpay their chief executives, according to one of the authors of a report that annually ranks executive compensation and reviews say-on-pay votes cast by mutual fund companies.
Read MoreThanks to the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, shareholders gained access to new information this year.
Read MoreWho is the most overpaid CEO? It's Ronald Clarke of Fleetcor Technologies, or so says a new study that analyzes performance and pay.
Read MoreMore pension funds and other large shareholders are voting against CEO pay packages considered excessive, but it will take more involvement to fix the problem, according to a report released Thursday by As You Sow, a non-profit shareholder advocacy organization in Oakland, Calif.
Read MoreBig asset managers stand accused of rubber-stamping exorbitant executive pay deals in the US, as the income gap between bosses and staff grows even wider.
Read MoreLarge asset managers oppose executive compensation plans at a higher rate than ever before, and European firms tend to reject CEO pay more often than their U.S. peers.
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