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.