"In announcing the litigation, Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel of As You Sow, said: 'As You Sow requested these records more than two years ago because investors have a legitimate interest in understanding the linkage between workforce composition and financial performance.'” Read More →
Read More“‘Workforce diversity is a material business issue that investors increasingly consider in their decision-making,’ said Andrew Behar, As You Sow’s CEO.
Without this information, said Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel, ‘investors are flying blind.’" Read More →
Read More“‘By rescinding this rule, the S.E.C. is turning its back on the investors it exists to protect,’ Andrew Behar, the chief executive of As You Sow, an environmental advocacy group, said in a statement. “This action treats the material financial risk of climate change that harms every American as nothing more than fulfillment of a campaign promise to the fossil fuel industry.’” Read More →
Read More“‘‘Shareholders are capitalism’s early warning system,’ says Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow. ‘Investors warned Meta for years that its platform was harming children. Recent jury decisions suggest those warnings were ignored – raising the prospect of significant liabilities.’” Read More →
Read More“‘‘Regulation S-K is the foundational disclosure framework that governs risk, governance and financial information. It should be strengthened not diminished,’ said Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow.” 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“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“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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“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“The board is ‘clearly caving to political pressure, which puts shareholder returns at risk. We expect our board to make decisions based on pecuniary measures, not politics, and request that they retract this policy change immediately,’ Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, said in an email.” 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 More“A large-scale study released in 2023 by As You Sow, a nonprofit shareholder advocacy group promoting corporate social responsibility, revealed the direct correlation between DEI and bottom line results, ‘making a clear business and investor case for diversity as a material factor in financial success.’" Read More →
Read More“‘Shareholders overwhelmingly voted against resolutions to end DEI and backed management maintaining merit-based diversity programs focused on financial performance,’ said Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, a nonprofit organization that advocates for environmental and social corporate responsibility." Read More →
Read More“As Andy Behar, CEO of As You Sow noted: ‘Shareholders understand that diversity and inclusion are material to profitable growth. Anyone who’s looking at the data, which the companies and shareholders are, comes to the conclusion that greater diversity leads to financial outperformance.’" Read More →
Read More“‘We’re a little bit in a pause mode,’ said Andy Behar, As You Sow’s CEO. He said a ‘right-wing crusade’ against socially responsible investing has left shareholders in limbo as they figure out how to navigate the shifting political climate.” Read More →
Read More“According to the shareholder advocate group As You Sow, Travelers has continued to stay profitable even with disasters like wildfires and hurricanes sharply increasing rates or pulling out of high-risk markets altogether.” Read More →
Read More“‘The political situation in the US is deepening trust between companies and their shareholders “as there is a common enemy trying to harm businesses,’ Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, has told Responsible Investor.” Read More →
Read More“A lot of people, if you ask them, say, ‘Yes, I would love to have my investments align with my values,’” said Andrew Montes, director of digital strategies at As You Sow. “But then we also see a low adoption of sustainable funds within 401(k) plans that offer them.” Read More →
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