ImpactAlpha, Aug. 22 – Increasing accountability to employees, customers, suppliers and communities shouldn’t mean decreased accountability to shareholders.
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Mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas have sent the country reeling.
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Some 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a township adjacent to a state forest, oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell is building a sprawling new plant to support what it sees as the future of its business.
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Big US pension funds and impact investors will this month step up pressure on companies to reduce the gender pay gap by trying to compel them to disclose the difference in how they treat men and women.
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By stepping up to lead efforts on sustainable agriculture, General Mills Inc. has dodged a proxy fight with shareholder activist group As You Sow over the use of pesticides in the company’s supply chain.
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Last June, As You Sow founded the Plastic Solutions Investor Alliance, an international coalition of investors engaging publicly traded consumer goods companies on plastic waste and pollution.
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An environmental group that wages shareholder resolution campaigns dropped a complaint against General Mills after the company acknowledged pesticides are a problem in food supplies and outlined steps to reduce their use.
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Every year, As You Sow – the leading US non-profit shareholder advocate – identifies the 100 most overpaid CEOs of the S&P 500 and analyses whether or not pension funds and financial managers have held companies accountable for excessive compensation.
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Oil giants themselves have acknowledged that demand for their product will peak at some point as the worldwide transition to electrified transportation and renewable power generation continues.
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A $55 billion deal that saw the merger of two Texas-based oil and gas companies closed Thursday after a months-long bidding war.
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Mass shootings and the growing wave of socially responsible investing doesn't seem to be influencing behavior at one of the nation's largest mutual fund companies.
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Prosecutors in New York are accusing ExxonMobil of trying to discourage potential witnesses from testifying about whether the oil giant misled investors over the costs it may face from future climate regulations.
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US index funds vote against management at investee companies less frequently than their actively managed counterparts when it comes to shareholder proposals on contentious issues such as executive pay, research has found.
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Pay for many executives at nonprofit healthcare organizations in the United States has continued to soar even amid growing concern about medical costs and access to care.
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For the second year in a row, Oracle’s board has told investors that its trio of top execs — CEO Safra Catz, fellow CEO Mark Hurd, and CTO Larry Ellison — won’t be getting their all of their bonuses.
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Video game and film holding company Activision Blizzard has been dominating their industry for years now.
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A common debate in impact investing circles is over the best way to quantify, and/or qualify, the non-financial impact of an investment.
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New York (CNN Business)Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, two major sellers of plastic bottles, have made sweeping sustainability commitments. Now they are stepping away from a plastics lobbying group.
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In this interview, Motley Fool analysts Maria Gallagher and John Rotonti chat with Andrew Behar about sustainability, corporate responsibility, and ESG investing.
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