“‘Since proposals are generally non-binding, the only real benefit of these changes appears to be shielding companies from having to consider hard issues that would be easier to sweep under the rug’, explains Danielle Fugere, As You Sow’s president and chief counsel.” Read More →
Read More“‘Insurance companies are raising rates and dropping coverage because of climate-related disasters, but the parties most responsible — the major fossil fuel producers — are not being held accountable,’ said Danielle Fugere, President and Chief Counsel of As You Sow." Read More →
Read More“As You Sow President Danielle Fugere stated: ‘Our proposal simply asks Chubb to evaluate whether recovering costs from responsible parties could help keep insurance affordable for the families and communities that depend on it.’" Read More →
Read More“As You Sow’s proposal addresses a significant policy issue—the affordability and availability of homeowners insurance in the face of climate change—that directly impacts the company’s long-term financial sustainability and carries broad societal implications." Read More →
Read More"‘Companies have to decide: Do you want to have a good relationship with your shareholders, or do you want to pay your corporate attorneys millions?’ said As You Sow CEO Andy Behar.” Read More →
Read More“‘Communications on material issues central to informed investor decision making is the underpinning of our free market system,’ said Andy Behar, the chief executive of the prominent shareholder activist organization As You Sow.” Read More →
Read More“Ultimately, Behar said, limiting small investors’ options for holding corporations accountable removes incentives for those companies to constructively engage with advocates. ‘Companies generally sit down with us,’ he said, noting that As You Sow had more than 100 such engagements last year alone. ‘It’s all part of a process.’” Read More →
Read More“The SEC ‘was founded in 1934 to provide communication between shareholders — to create trust between companies and their beneficial owners — and now they are no longer going to be helping shareholders,’ said Andy Behar, the CEO of As You Sow, in an interview.” Read More →
Read More“As You Sow has led a chorus of critics after the SEC reversed its long-standing practice of allowing smaller shareholders to file Notices of Exempt Solicitation on the SEC’s EDGAR system, calling the move a ‘significant setback for shareholder democracy and informed capital markets.” Read More →
Read More“Andy Behar, CEO of As You Sow warned that ‘restricting exempt solicitations to the few largest investors harms the core tenets of capitalism – information and trust between corporations and their beneficial owners’.” Read More →
Read MoreOur CEO, Andrew Behar, was featured in Law.com discussing how proxy advisers’ recommendations often favor management and the role AI may play in proxy voting decisions.
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“As You Sow said the new policy ‘risks chilling legitimate shareholder speech and weakens the fundamentals of a strong market.’” Read More →
Read More“Trump's December 12 executive order on proxy solicitors did not restrict proxy voting by big index funds, once a right-wing priority, and a sign the administration may not wholly side with executives against investors.
To make sense of things, I spoke with Andrew Behar, CEO of activist investor group As You Sow, a frequent resolution filer and company interlocutor.”
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Andy Behar, CEO of As You Sow, stated, “Verizon’s shareholders applaud the California Public Utilities Commission’s decision. We have analyzed data from over 1,600 companies spanning five years and know that greater workforce diversity leads to financial outperformance.” Read More →
Read More“Shareholder advocacy nonprofit As You Sow said Friday that a potential repeal of Rule 14a-8, and potential changes to the shareholder proposal process, ‘entirely ignores the financial benefits and pecuniary outperformance resulting from shareholder proposals.’ " Read More →
Read More“The SEC ruled for shareholders in around 40 per cent of shareholder proposal cases. Its disappearance from the fray would remove a vital platform for recalibration and stability,” Danielle Fugere, president of As You Sow, told Sustainable Views." Read More →
Read More“On Tuesday, two U.S. investor advocacy groups, As You Sow and the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), filed a request with the SEC asking it to reconsider. They argue that the program violates the SEC’s rules on proxy voting, which restrict shareholders from delegating voting authority beyond a single annual meeting.” Read More →
Read More“As You Sow, a nonprofit shareholder advocacy organization, has its own ‘set it and forget it’ system that allows shareholders to direct their proxy votes toward environmental or social justice issues.” Read More →
Read MoreIn a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission from the non-profit As You Sow, Microsoft is accused of hypocrisy for styling itself as a “first mover” on climate change while targeting fossil fuels as the most significant growth opportunity for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and cloud computing services. Read More
Read MoreShareholder Rights Group — whose members include nonprofits As You Sow, Ceres and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, as well as the nation’s largest federation of unions — sent the letter Thursday, after the IAC explored proxy proposals and the implications of ExxonMobil’s lawsuit against Arjuna Capital at a meeting last month. Read More
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