T. Rowe Price – Proxy Voting – 2016
Whereas: T. Rowe Price (TROW) is a respected leader in the financial services industry. TROW has stated publicly that it understands how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors can affect companies financially. On its website, the Company states ESG issues may affect the value of an investment. TROW reports and mitigates greenhouse gas emissions associated with its operations and the company’s other climate change-related impacts. In its response to the 2014 survey by the Carbon Disclosure Project, TROW states: “We incorporate processes for considering climate change risks and opportunities into several areas of the firm consistent with the risks and …
Intel – Request for Continuation of In-Person Shareholder Meetings (2010)
WHEREAS Intel has announced that it is discontinuing its physical stockholders meeting in 2010 and will hold the meeting online. We strongly support the use of new technologies to make annual meetings accessible to stakeholders who cannot attend in person. This will make “attendance” simpler for investors globally and is a creative tool for expanding outreach to owners. But we do not believe that Internet-only meetings should be substituted for traditional in-person annual meetings. Instead, they should be a complementary. We believe the tradition of in-person annual meetings plays an important role in holding management accountable to stockholders. In contrast, …
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