Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow The importance of proxy voting continues to grow, particularly in light of increasing shareholder investment in mutual funds, both actively and passively managed, in the US and the EU. A key issue is the influence of proxy advisory firms, which guide institutional investors’ voting decisions. These firms have a[…]
On 31 January, Italian SfC member Fondazione Finanza Etica attended the annual general meeting of ThyssenKrupp as a representative of Shareholders for Change and together with the Dachverband der Kritischen Aktionärinnen und Aktionäre, the German critical shareholders association. ThyssenKrupp has always opposed the introduction of stricter internal assessments on arms exports and has never provided clear information to rule out[…]
In March 2023, Shareholders for Change alongside other 20 Swiss and international institutional investors sent a co-signed letter on Human Rights and Environmental due diligence to members of the Swiss Parliament. Our request was to adopt a comprehensive human rights and environmental due diligence legislation in Switzerland just like Germany did at the beginning of the year with[…]
Ökoworld, an asset manager pioneer in the field of sustainable investment, joined SfC in December 2024. By joining Shareholders for Change, ÖKOWORLD is further expanding its engagement activities. ‘It carries more weight when 20 institutional investors act together and fight for positive change in companies,’ says the company in a press release. ‘We want to[…]
On 12 November 2024, SfC members met with ICCR CEO Josh Zinner in a webinar. For over 50 years, members of ICCR – a coalition of over 300 global institutional investors representing more than $4 trillion in managed assets – have leveraged their role as shareholders to call for improved performance on critical environmental and[…]
Marco Carlizzi, Chairman of Etica Funds, spoke at the second Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW to read the Investor Statement and renovate the commitment to stop fundings for nuclear weapons Three questions to Marco Carlizzi, Chairman of Etica Funds The 2017 TPNW complements and reinforces the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). What[…]
We asked this question to the SfC members who have been involved in the project during the AGM Season 2021. Mauro Meggiolaro, Fondazione Finanza Etica “We evaluated the decarbonisation plans of Eni, Shell and Total. All three are still vague and concentrate most decarbonisation efforts after 2030. How can the majority of shareholders be[…]
SfC made a donation to Tax Justice Network after hosting a seminar of its expert Tommaso Faccio In a seminar that was held in Madrid last December, Tommaso Faccio, researcher in the field of corporation tax at the Nottingham University and co-founder of Tax Justice Italia, explained to SfC members how the most recurrent[…]
On 31 July, the Italian government has suspended Rheinmetall bomb export licenses to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, involved in the Yemen war, for 18 months. The company’s Italian subsidiary, RWM Italia, produces bombs that are exported to Saudi Arabia and used to bomb Yemen, in a war which has no legitimacy under[…]
A report by the European network for shareholder engagement “SfC – Shareholders for Change” lists twelve companies potentially exposed to risks linked to the extraction and use of rare metals, that are strategic for the transition to a low carbon economy. They are called Yttrium, Lanthanum, Praseodymium, Neodymium, Terbium, Cerium and the list does[…]