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Q2 2023 Market Update: Take What the Market Gives You
There are lots of cycles for an investor to consider: economic, credit, profit, interest rate, and stock market. Where we are in a cycle has crucial investment consequences. The decade up to the COVID pandemic was a prolonged cycle of…
Cigna Commits to Strengthening Transparency of Political Contributions
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Media Contact: Molly Betournay, 802-526-2525, [email protected]
Norwich, VT (April 25, 2023) – Clean Yield Asset Management announced today that it withdrew a shareholder proposal at The Cigna Group last week, following the company’s agreement to expand its…
Q1 2023 Market Update: Rough Seas Ahead
The federal government seems to have stemmed the recent banking crisis for now. Its aggressive intervention to back customer deposits has had the intended calming effect. The Federal Reserve, however, was partly responsible for the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank,…
Impact Profile: Oweesta Corporation
Oweesta Corporation is a Native community development financial institution (CDFI) that plays an essential role in catalyzing the flow of capital to Native communities across the United States. As part of Clean Yield’s diversity, equity, and inclusion work, in 2022…
Q4 2022 Market Update: Turning the Page
2022 in Review
Ouch! It was the worst year for global stock markets since the 2007-2009 global financial crisis. We’re not surprised. After the rampant speculation of 2021 in cryptocurrencies, “meme stocks,” and “disruptive innovator” companies, 2021 ended with stock…
Clean Yield Celebrates Cooperative Month
October is Cooperative Month! In honor of Cooperative Month, we want to share a bit about what co-ops are and why Clean Yield loves them.
What is a co-op?
A co-op is a group or organization that is owned and…
Q3 2022 Market Update: Rear View
No, we are not referring to the 1954 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. We are referring to what Fed Chairman Powell seems to be looking through in driving monetary policy. Rear-view driving ends badly; when the Fed does it, the…
2022 Proxy Season Wrap-up: Stubborn Optimism
Stubborn optimism needs to motivate you daily; you always need to bear in mind why you feel the future is worth fighting for.
–Christiana Figueres
In the world of shareholder engagement and advocacy, summer is the quiet season. The hustle…
Q2 2022 Market Update: “Are We There Yet?”
The first half of year was the worst for the S&P 500 stock index since 1970, as it fell by nearly 21%. The technology-heavy NASDAQ index fell by 30%, a record. Many of the most speculative favorites of the prior…
Post-Roe: Anger and Action
We’re angry and we’re scared. Angry that vital rights have been taken away from women. Angry that a small group of people with so much power can simply overturn “settled law” in a way that’s in conflict with the wants…
Gettin’ Rolling with Shimano
Shimano Inc. is a Japan-based maker of cycling components, fishing tackle, and rowing-related equipment. Cycling components represent approximately 80% of sales, and fishing tackle 20%. “Other,” which includes rowing components, represents less than 1%. The company has two manufacturing facilities…
Company Profile: Organon (OGN)
Organon is a pharmaceutical company focused on women’s health that spun off from Merck in June 2021. Since the spinoff, Organon has acquired additional reproductive treatments, including a treatment for pre-term labor, another for postpartum hemorrhaging, potential treatments for endometriosis…