And Now A Word From Our Sponsor (Archive)
The snow is melting, the temperatures are climbing again, and the days are getting longer. It’s time to dream about summer: the warm evenings on the back porch, long walks in the park, outdoor summer concerts and (not to detract from our dreaming) a few messages from our corporate sponsor. That’s right, it’s hard to imagine enjoying a concert or sporting event these days without being bombarded by commercials, product samples, signage, free coupons and trinkets branded by corporate logos. And at these events you don’t have the ability to hit the MUTE button or change the channel to avoid …
Trillium Asset Management Presents Anti-Landmine Proposal at GE Stockholder Meeting(Archive)
Trillium is co-sponsor of a proposal at General Electric seeking a pledge against any future manufacturing of landmine components. …
Trillium Asset Management Fights for Sustainability at BP Amoco’s Annual Meeting in London(Archive)
Trillium Asset Management’s Simon Billenness will attend BP Amoco’s annual meeting in London on April 19. Simon will speak in support of a shareholder resolution urging BP Amoco to take further steps toward becoming a sustainable energy company. The resolution urges the company to plan and conduct business in radical new ways. “Protecting the climate will require a radical rethink of energy policy and a move away from fossil fuels, leaving most of the world’s total fossil fuel resource below the ground.” …
Shareholder Action Network Kicks Into Gear(Archive)
Social Investment Forum Launches Web Site for Shareholder Advocacy. …
A Week In the Life of Action (Archive)
Britain lacks two actors key to American shareholder activism: religious shareholder activists and firms such as Trillium Asset Management dedicated to social investment. This is why Greenpeace approached an American investment firm in order to find the one significant investor in BP Amoco needed to file the resolution. …
Trillium Asset Management Stands Out in AFL-CIO Survey.( Archive)
On March 1, the AFL-CIO released its 1999 Key Votes Survey which surveyed the voting patterns of 180 investment managers. Trillium Asset Management Corporation scored a 100% voting record on shareholder resolutions emphasizing management accountability and good corporate governance over the past year. While the median manager was found to support good corporate governance in 75% of the resolutions, Trillium Asset Management stood out with its 100% voting record. …
Social Investing Tops $2 Trillion Mark (Archive)
In a November 4 report prepared by Trillium Asset Management on behalf of the Social Investment Forum, it was announced that $2.16 trillion in assets are involved in socially and environmentally responsible investing in the United States. Approximately one out of every eight dollars, or roughly 13% of the total $16.3 billion in investment assets under professional management, is part of a socially responsible portfolio. That’s up from 9% of the total in 1997. Social assets grew at twice the rate of all assets under professional management over the past two years. Between 1997 and 1999, total assets involved in …
Dealing with China(Archive)
Holding corporations accountable for their conduct in China and Tibet is a tough puzzle. But it is one that can be cracked. …
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