Gender lens investing offers investors a process for identifying and weighing issues pertaining to gender-based issues — pay equity, gender diversity, and career advancement, to name a few. We integrate these findings into our investment decision-making with the goal of mitigating risk, identifying opportunities, and creating positive social impact.

Gender equity, while an important aspect of Zevin Asset Management’s research and impact process, is a part rather than the sum of our approach. Given the overlap between the issues we work on in addition to gender equity, such as racial equity and climate change mitigation, we do not view these issues in isolation. Instead, we employ multiple lenses in our investment approach and look for intersectionality between these areas to help us better understand and address inequities in our systems and institutions.

Zevin Asset Management was founded on the belief that active investors have an important role to play in advocating for social and environmental progress. Since our founding in 1997, we have widened our panorama of risk and opportunity by conducting research on corporate environmental, social, and governance-related impacts to inform our investment approach. Through active ownership, we encourage companies to adopt more sustainable business practices that we believe make sense in the long term. 

We describe racial equity investing as a lens applied to companies to identify and change inequitable policies, practices, and behaviors to advance meaningful racial and ethnic diversity, equity, and inclusion. We accomplish our work through research and stakeholder collaboration, shareholder engagements, submission of shareholder proposals, proxy voting, and public policy outreach and support.

Zevin Asset Management and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, on behalf of investors representing $436 billion in assets under management and in partnership with the American Economic Liberties Project, submitted a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) vocalizing our support of the FTC’s proposed ban on noncompete agreements.