Trillium Asset Management Signs Letter to President Bush Requesting $1 Billion for Global AIDS and Health Fund(Archive)
Trillium Asset Management has joined a coalition of civil society groups in mobilizing behind an effort to call on President Bush and the U.S. Congress to implement a $1 billion emergency supplemental appropriation this fiscal year to support the Global AIDS and Health Fund. Other signers of the letter include AIDS Action, Global AIDS Alliance, Oxfam America, and many national religious organizations. …
Chocolate Manufacturers Take Steps to End Child Slavery(Archive)
Historic protocol represents the first time an agricultural industry has taken responsibility for its product from harvesting to market. …
Internet Shareholder Activism, Part II (Archive)
Our March cover story examined the potential of the Internet to transform shareholder activism due to the ease with which shareholders can now communicate with each other, share information about proxy proposals, and lobby institutional investors to support them. This underexamined topic, we felt, was too big too be explored thoroughly in one article. Hence we offer Part II, to tell more of the tale, share reader responses, and generate further debate and activity. Part I can be found in our Newsletter Archive. …
Economic and Social Outlook (Archive)
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL OUTLOOK: October 2001 Stock Market Overview During the first week of market trading after the terrorist attacks, we sent you by fax, post or email a piece summarizing the results of an analysis done by Ned Davis Research and published in the September 15 issue of Barron’s. Davis’ analysis reviewed political shocks to the market dating back to 1940 (Pearl Harbor, JFK assassination, Cuban Missile Crisis, etc.) to see if there was a pattern to the market’s behavior. He found that a) the market consistently overreacted to the downside and b) the average time it took the …
Market Commentary: September 18, 2001(Archive)
Historically the market has consistently overestimated the importance of political and other non-economic catastrophes in the days following the event. Typically the market's reaction to such shocks is an immediate decline followed by a relatively quick recovery. …
The Future beyond September 11, 2001(Archive)
If the spirit of generosity and helpfulness we have seen so far could be sustained in the days and weeks to follow, at least in some ways we would achieve a Better World. …
An important message to our clients and friends regarding the recent events in New York and Washington, DC(Archive)
An open letter from Joan Bavaria, CEO, and Samuel B. Jones, Jr., Chief Investment Officer, of Trillium Asset Management Corporation …
GAME OVER(Archive)
The big news flashing across the market in 2001 reads like a giant video-game monitor. And the message is: GAME OVER. …
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