Shareholder Activism
Shareholder Advocacy: 2024-25 Year in Review
The world of shareholder engagement and advocacy has its own cadence and calendar, which work backwards from the Annual General Meeting (AGM) season’s peak in May and June. In the summer, as we get ready to strategize about next year,…
Proxy Voting: 2024-25 Year in Review
Equity (or stock) investors are actually the owners of the companies they invest in. This ownership gives us the right to express our opinion on the management and governance of our companies. Clean Yield’s engagement work is one way we can…
Shareholder Advocacy: Changing the Rules of the Game
By Liz Levy, CFA, Managing Director of Investment Research
It goes without saying that the first few weeks of the second Trump administration have been a whirlwind of changes across broad swaths of Americans’ lives — or maybe a maelstrom…
Cigna Commits to Strengthening Transparency of Political Contributions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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…
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…
Clean Yield’s Reflections and Actions Regarding Reproductive Rights
No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens. –Michelle Obama
We’ve been reeling this week. The news that the Supreme Court of the…
Concealment Clauses Proposal Earns 64.7% Support from IBM Shareholders
64.7% of IBM shareholders supported a proposal submitted by Clean Yield Asset Management calling on the Company to report on its use of concealment clauses at IBM’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The support for this proposal comes at a…
Statement in Support of Concealment Clauses Proposal at the 2022 IBM Annual Meeting
On April 26, 2022 Clean Yield Asset Management delivered the following statement at the 2022 IBM Annual Meeting in support of its proposal requesting that IBM report on the potential risks related to its use of concealment clauses in the…
Loews Lets the Sunlight in Following Engagement with Clean Yield
Last month, Loews Corporation, a holding company which includes hotels, an insurance company, and pipelines, among other things, quietly took a leap forward on corporate political disclosure and disclosed the extent of its political involvement. In doing so, it shifted…
IBM Shareholders Seek Transparency about Workplace Harassment and Discrimination
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Molly Betournay, 802-526-2525, [email protected]
Norwich, VT (November 8, 2021) –Clean Yield Asset Management has filed a shareholder proposal asking IBM to disclose the potential risks to the company associated with its use of concealment clauses…
2021 Proxy Season Wrap-up
It’s been a year. Between a race reckoning, a global pandemic, an attack on the U.S. Capitol and the core tenets of our democracy, a lot happened. Something else happened this past year. Shareholders held corporations to account on these…
Prioritizing pathways to net zero
Clean Yield is pleased to announce that as of August 2021, nearly 50% of our approved investments have set ambitious climate targets, aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement. This is a very promising figure when compared to just…