Press Releases

Board and Management Face Frustrated Investors Seeking Systemic Culture Change and ‘Operationalization’ of its Vision and Values Statement. NEW YORK, NY – TUESDAY, APRIL 25TH, 2017 – At its shareholder meeting in Jacksonville, FL this morning, investors in Wells Fargo did little to conceal their frustration with management and the board at the bank’s collective […]

Most severe attack on shareholder rights in 50 years

In statement, global investor coalition acknowledges progress made by over 100 brands in concert with trade unions and NGOs to transform worker safety in garment sector through the Accord on Fire and Building Safety. NEW YORK, NY – MONDAY APRIL 24TH, 2017 – A coalition of global investors representing over U.S. $4.3 trillion is using […]

Investors encourage companies to go further, move faster to address growing public health risk of antibiotics overuse.  New York, NY, Thursday, April 13, 2017 – Shareholder members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility who have been engaging meat producers and restaurant chains on their continued use of meat raised with antibiotics used in human […]

We believe the ability to attend annual stockholder meetings in person is a fundamental tenet of shareholder democracy. The annual meeting provides shareholders with a critical accountability mechanism to assess, challenge and evaluate management performance through an open exchange with board and management.  Nevertheless, there is a growing trend among several high profile corporations – […]

Faith-based investors speak out on risks of a change in SEC’s planned disclosure of employee-CEO pay ratio New York, March 21st, 2017 Praxis Mutual Funds® and Christian Brothers Investment Services led a group of seven faith-based investment organizations in urging the Securities and Exchange Commission to keep a rule requiring businesses to disclose the CEO/median worker pay ratio. […]

Demonstrating strong investor opposition to special interest efforts to weaken key elements of the shareholder resolution process (SEC rule 14a-8), a group of leading investor organizations representing $65 trillion in assets wrote last week to the Trump administration urging support for the SEC’s existing shareholder proposal process, which is providing wide-ranging benefits. The letter was sent […]

Today, 35 diverse religious leaders joined together to welcome a Republican resolution on climate change, introduced by Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY-21), Rep. Carlos Curbelo (FL-26), Rep. Ryan Costello (PA-6), and fourteen other Republican members of Congress. Signatories of the letter, organized by the Friends Committee on National Legislation, include prominent voices from Evangelical, Baptist, Catholic, […]