At Zevin Asset Management, we build responsible investment portfolios for our clients. We then address risks and create positive social impact by engaging with portfolio companies. We use a range of techniques to move companies toward better environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices, but shareholder proposals are often necessary to turn up the heat. In Q1, we received word that several of our proposals would appear on company ballots in the coming months.
Responsible Investment and Divestment: Our Testimony
Another year has begun with climate catastrophe bearing down on our civilization. Two years after historic bushfires, Australia is now facing the worst flooding in decades. NATO is warning about an intensification of climate change’s effects, which could “lead to more extreme weather, to droughts and to flooding, force people to move, to more fierce competition about scarce resources, water, land.” This is already obvious for poor and marginalized communities like the “climate migrants” facing human rights violations at the US-Mexico border.
Linking Pay and Corporate Responsibility at Apple
Q4 2020 Impact Update
At Zevin Asset Management, we build responsible investment portfolios for our clients. We then address risks and create positive social impact by engaging with portfolio companies. As 2020 draws to a close, it is clearer than ever that three of the most pressing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues facing companies (and society) are COVID-19, racial injustice, and climate change. Our advocacy helped to move companies toward better practice in each of these areas.
Q3 2020 Impact Update
At Zevin Asset Management, we build responsible investment portfolios for our clients. We then address risks and create positive social impact by engaging with portfolio companies. In the third quarter of 2020, we continued challenging companies for accountability and positive change on environmental destruction and deforestation, labor standards, and racial justice.
Honoring Hiroshima & Nagasaki by working to de-fund the military-industrial complex
This month we remember the United States bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago. On August 6 and August 9, 1945, those cities were destroyed, instantly killing or injuring at least 200,000 people. The bombings scarred the lives of the survivors, the hibakusha — many of whom succumbed to related diseases years later and the last of whom mark this anniversary with us. The bombings also shaped the last 75 years of global politics and forced us to question our belief in a positive future for humankind.
Q2 2020 Impact Update
We build responsible investment portfolios for our clients. From there we address risks and create positive social impact through advocacy, specifically at several shareholder meetings this quarter. As the world turned its attention to systemic racism and police brutality against Black people, we continued to challenge racist policies and outcomes regarding companies in our portfolio and beyond. During this time, we also kept up work related to COVID-19 and the climate crisis.