Mutual Fund Disclosure Good News for Shareholder Advocates(A)
Trillium Asset Management applauds a new SEC rule requiring mutual funds to tell their investors how they are voting on shareholder resolutions. …
Joan Bavaria's Response to Wall Street Journal editorial on Proxy Voting Disclosure Rule(A)
In an age of investor cynicism, daylight or transparency is more important than it has ever been around issues of corporate governance. Trust is impossible to build on a foundation of suppressed information, and trust is nothing less than the heart and life blood of our market. …
Bush Administration Fails To Defend Timber Industry Lawsuits:
Conservation groups, who have intervened in the cases and have full party status, have been excluded from the settlement talks. …
New SEC Disclosure Rules a Win for Shareholder Advocates(A)
The SEC recently approved rules that will require mutual funds, the nation's most powerful and traditionally secretive institutional investors, to disclose how they vote on shareholder proposals. The result should be even more power for socially responsible investors and shareholder advocates. …
Our Advocacy Agenda for 2003(A)
Resolutions and Dialogue Cover a Wide Range of Sustainability Issues …
BP Withdraws From Pro-Arctic Drilling Group(A)
BP's move is a cause for celebration even if the show is far from over. …
Trillium Finds IdaCorp Failing to Respond to Investor Calls for Disclosure(A)
Trillium issued the following press release today expressing disappointment with IdaCorp's failure to disclosure critical economic information regarding the relicensing of the Hells Canyon Complex of dams. Despite the vote of 35.5% of shareholders in support of disclosing this information, Idacorp omitted most of the requested information for its draft license application which it filed last week. …
Making Money Make Change 2002: A Gathering for Progressive People With Wealth(A)
Join the Tides Foundation September 27-29, 2002 at The Trinity Conference Center in West Cornwall, Connecticut for their fifth annual national gathering of young people, ages 15-35, with earned or inherited wealth. …
Trillium Asset Management Letter to NYSE Regarding Rule Changes(A)
On August 1, the New York Stock Exchange adopted changes in its listing standards changes in response to the recent crisis in confidence catalyzed by many corporate scandals. These rules changes are available on the NYSE web site under "Corporate Governance". During the comment period, Trillium Asset Management responded to the proposed changes with additional comments and support. Following is the letter sent to the New York Stock Exchange by Joan Bavaria on behalf of Trillium Asset Management. Trillium Asset Management will continue to press government bodies and industry for expanded reporting and other suggestions imbedded in the …
Community Environmental Justice Victory in Norco, Louisiana(A)
After years of struggling for relocation of nearby residents and pollution reduction at Shell facilities in Norco, Louisiana, the Concerned Citizens of Norco have finally achieved an environmental justice victory. …
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