“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 More“As You Sow said the new policy ‘risks chilling legitimate shareholder speech and weakens the fundamentals of a strong market.’” 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 MoreGreen America, Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) and As You Sow delivered the signatures today to the SEC at its Washington, D.C., offices at 100 F Street NE. Signatures also were gathered by Public Citizen and Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). Read More →
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