The long-awaited U.S. Securities Exchange Commission draft rule on fund naming was released today requiring companies to improve the accuracy of names and prospectus language of mutual funds and ETFs.
Read More
Amazon shareholders voted today on an As You Sow resolution asking the company to prepare a report on why the company operates under one set of climate policies for its operations and the opposite in its employee retirement investment plan. Vote totals will be released in four days.
Read More
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Friday ruled against Amazon.com’s “no-action” motion to exclude the As You Sow shareholder resolution asking the company to prepare a report on why the company operates under one set of climate policies for its operations and the opposite in its employee retirement investments.
Read More
After a four-month analysis of 94 mutual funds and ETFs with “ESG” in their name, a team of University of California, San Diego graduate students concluded that the linguistic patterns found in mutual fund and ETF prospectus language has a relatively low correlation with its ESG rating.
Read More
Today, As You Sow, a non-profit corporate accountability organization, increased the coverage of its Corporate Retirement Plan Sustainability Scorecard to include five additional major U.S. publicly traded companies.
Read More
Today, As You Sow released a new Corporate 401(k) Sustainability Scorecard that grades companies like Amazon.com on their retirement plan investments.
Read More
The BlackRock U.S. Carbon Transition Readiness ETF (ticker LCTU) launched last week breaking funding records on its first trading day with $1.25 billion invested.
Read More
As You Sow today released its “Smoke & Mirrors: Healthcare Companies Are Addicted to Tobacco” report showing the majority of retirement funds, including those offered by healthcare companies, contain tobacco investments.
Read More
As You Sow released today its seventh Invest Your Values mutual fund and ETF educational tool. Prison Free Funds is the latest issue area to join the free, online platform that enables individual and institutional investors to know what they own.
Read More
As You Sow, a leading non-profit promoting sustainable investing, today announced that its Gender Equality Funds investing tool has been upgraded with a first-of-its-kind sustainability report card, grading investments on six environmental and social issues including gender equality, fossil fuels, deforestation, and weapons.
Read More
Eighty three investors representing more than $1.47 trillion in assets under management are asking companies to increase public access to information related to workplace equity policies and practices across gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other diversity types.
Read MoreAs You Sow released today its release its fifth Invest Your Values screening tool, Gender Equality Funds. Gender Equality Funds is a free, online tool that enables individual and institutional investors to apply a gender lens to mutual fund and ETF investments.
Read MoreWeapon Free Funds, a new tool from non-profit groups As You Sow and CODEPINK, was released today to help individuals, communities, universities and others review their mutual fund investments for holdings in military contractors and gun manufacturers and retailers. Handguns, assault rifles, ammunition, cluster munitions, landmines and nuclear weapons are often embedded in commonly-held mutual funds and ETFs.
Read MoreProxy Preview 2018, released today by As You Sow, the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2), and Proxy Impact, offers a comprehensive look at more than 400 shareholder resolutions filed on environmental, social and sustainable governance (ESG) issues. The report shows how investors continue to seek accountability on climate change risk and corporate political spending, but have growing concerns regarding the treatment of women. Other key issues include gun laws, the opioid crisis, fake news and human trafficking.
Read MoreToday, As You Sow and Corporate Knights released the fourth update of the Carbon Clean 200™ (Clean200™), a list of the 200 largest publicly traded companies in the world making significant revenue from clean energy. In its first full year and a half of live performance, Clean200 companies generated a total return of 32.1%. That’s almost double the 15.7% for its fossil fuel benchmark the S&P 1200 Global Energy Index.
Read More