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12 Sep 2013

The Clean Yield Newsletter: Fall 2013

Click here to view the PDF version. 2013 Shareholder Engagement Wrap-Up MCK…EQT…AGL…XOM…MMM…CVS…WFC…GIS…SJM…How our dialogues and shareholder proposals during the 2012-2013 proxy season fared. (Spoiler alert![...]

08 Sep 2013

2013 Shareholder Engagement Wrap-Up

In the 2013 proxy season, Clean Yield Asset Management filed shareholder proposals at five companies, co-filed proposals at two more and had productive dialogues with two additional companies. The table below encapsulates[...]

20 May 2013

“How To Vote Your Proxies” Video Demystifies Proxy Ballots for Regular People

Admit it. You’ve thrown away proxy ballots, those booklets that arrive every spring like daffodils – densely written, seemingly incomprehensible[...]

06 May 2013

Strong Vote for LGBT Nondiscrimination Policy at AGL Resources Stockholder Meeting

In the political realm, getting 41% of the vote is somewhat embarrassing. But where shareholder votes are concerned, 41% is[...]

06 May 2013

Join Clean Yield for How-To Webinar on Voting Proxies

It’s spring! For many, spring means not just the appearance of daffodils but also the arrival of corporate proxy ballots, those once-a-year invitations to shareholders[...]

16 Feb 2013

“Research Questions Return on Corporate Political Cash”

The burden of proof should be on corporations to justify how their political spending increases their long-term value, we told the Minneapolis Start Tribune.

25 Jan 2013

“ExxonMobil, Chevron, Target Pressed to Stop Political Spending”

In an article on a slate of shareholder proposals calling on companies to forgo all kinds of political spending, we[...]

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