As You Sow, a non-profit focusing on corporate social responsibility, offers an online tool that compares where funds rank with regard to criteria such as deforestation, fossil fuels, gender equality, guns, weapons, tobacco and prisons. Read More →
Read More"Most employees across the nation are unaware their retirement plan investments are profiting from environmentally and socially risky companies," As You Sow said in the report. "The financial risks include stranded assets, reputational risk, and other negative impacts of unsustainable business practices that can destroy shareholder value." Read More →
Read MoreIts latest tool evaluates specific companies’ 401(k) offerings. “There’s $10 trillion of assets, owned by 100 million people, that need to be looked at,” says Andy Behar, As You Sow's CEO. Read More →
Read MoreAs You Sow will scrutinize the S&P 500, arguing that companies with big Earth-friendly pledges, including Amazon and Comcast, offer funds full of polluters or social inequity. Read More →
Read MoreAs You Sow’s Invest Your Values tools allow consumers to see which companies are part of their funds and decide if the holdings align with their values, such as climate issues, gender equality, guns, tobacco and more. Read More →
Read MoreWhat the companies and large money managers did not mention is the entire ‘shareholder advocacy’ community of professionals. This includes faith-based, impact, and socially responsible investors, as well as non-profit shareholder advocates like As You Sow, the organisation of which I am CEO. Read More →
Read MoreIt may not be readily apparent how a fund incorporates ESG factors into its strategy. Take the BlackRock U.S. Carbon Transition Readiness ETF, which attracted $1.25 billion of investor dollars when it launched in mid April. “The people who invested in that fund thought they were addressing climate risk,” says Andrew Behar, CEO of shareholder advocacy nonprofit As You Sow. “Instead they got business as usual,” he says, including energy and fossil fuel giants. Read More →
Read MoreAs You Sow, a nonprofit that promotes corporate social responsibility, also created the Invest Your Values search tools, which investors can use to learn more about their investments. Investors can search the name or symbol of mutual funds or ETFs in one of six search tools, including Deforestation Free Funds and Fossil Free Funds, and will be provided with a "report card" on the fund related to the issue. Read More →
Read MoreAndrew Behar is the CEO of the nonprofit As You Sow, a watchdog and investor advocacy group that provides resources for those interested in more socially responsible investing. As You Sow's Invest Your Values tool helps investors rate and reference where their money is going, and covers a wide range of topics: environmentally-friendly investing, gender equality funds, prison-free funds, and gun and other weapon-free funds. Read More →
Read More“As You Sow, has been offering proxy voting guidelines for many years,” Andrew Behar, As You Sow's CEO, said in a statement. “The guidelines have always been suggestions on how a progressive foundation or impact investor might want to vote…” Read More →
Read More“Most people don’t have a clue what they own,” said Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, a corporate accountability group that pushes companies and institutional investors to adopt socially responsible practices through pressure from shareholders. “I did a talk at the World Bank, and I showed them their 401(k)s were invested in cluster munitions and landmines. But they didn’t know!” Read More →
Read MoreIf you’re ready to consider aligning your investments more closely with your values, research firm As You Sow provides a free action toolkit to move your money if not supporting private prisons is one of your passions. Read More →
Read MoreAndrew Behar, CEO of the nonprofit watchdog and shareholder advocacy group As You Sow, says his organization's mission is to help people "invest with intention." It's actually in your benefit to use such a strategy, he explains. The energy sector continues to be one of the worst performing sectors over the last decade. Meanwhile, the new presidential administration, with its robust climate change commitments, is expected to positively impact the returns on these kind of investments even further. Read More →
Read MoreA lot of retail investors who want to divest from fossil fuels don’t know what’s in their 401(k) plans. Many of them are unaware they have big oil companies, coal-fired utilities or oil-field services in their portfolios,” says Andrew Behar, chief executive of As You Sow, a nonprofit that works to promote corporate social responsibility. Read More →
Read MoreAndy Behar, CEO of As You Sow, says that Eugene Scalia’s three most recent DOL rulemakings suggest a personal vendetta. Read More →
Read MoreParticularly in the wake of the nation’s renewed attempts to reckon with racial justice, there has been a greater awareness about the power of money to make social change. Resources like As You Sow’s Prison Free Funds tool are now publicly available, to help individuals “find out if your money is invested in” economic systems like “the prison industrial complex, exploitative prison labor, and immigration detention centers.” Read More →
Read MoreThe free Prison Free Funds tool from As You Sow, a nonprofit that promotes corporate social responsibility, tells users if a mutual fund or ETF is invested in companies that profit off of prisons and prison labor, as well as companies profiting off of the immigrant detention centers at the border. Read More →
Read More“The prison-industrial complex has kind of crept into our economy and has become part and parcel of the economy,” says Andy Behar, CEO of As You Sow, the nonprofit that built the new platform, the seventh in a series of tools for investors. “And so people don’t realize what’s inside their 401(k) plan. Read More →
Read MoreCory Donovan, executive director of social impact investing organization ImpactPHL, used a tool from As You Sow, a 30-year-old nonprofit that pushes corporations towards more conscientious business practices, that allowed him to look up a socially good grade for the mutual funds that made up his Individual Retirement Account (IRA). What he learned was…not good. Read More →
Read MoreIn a Nutshell: Fossil Free Funds is one of six mutual fund search tools offered by 501(c)3 nonprofit As You Sow. Investors can research thousands of mutual funds, fund managers, fund families, and other options to see where the companies embedded in their mutual funds stand on social, environmental, and governance issues. Read More →
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