A Newground "Learning Brief" on Private Impact Investing, w/ Bruce Herbert hosting presenter Josh Hile of Citizen Mint (formerly the Director of Investment Strategy & Research for Laird Norton Wealth Management).
Whenever money moves it has an impact. To make the impact of your wealth more humane, fair, and sustainable, as an investor you need to know these 5 things.
We've fielded many questions about the implications of Washington State's new long-term capital gains tax – which was ruled constitutional by the state supreme court on March 24, 2023. In response, we've posted below a helpful FAQ put together by the WA State Department of Revenue that covers the most pressing questions in detail.
Whenever money moves it has an impact. To make the impact of your wealth more humane, fair, and sustainable, as an investor you need to know these 5 things.
What investors need to know: WA State Supreme Court upholds constitutionality of a long-term capital gains tax – a win long sought by progressive tax policy advocates.
With a ruling against Shell & majority votes against Exxon & Chevron, May 26th was a really big (bad) day for Big Oil.
There’s no future in believing there’s no future – we’re not booster rockets to be spent, but command modules moving ahead toward our own and society’s better outcomes.
Congress approved the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Stability (CARES) Act on March 27th. The largest stimulus bill ever, it includes significant provisions for retirement accounts.
Amazon rigs the vote by using two different formulas when counting: one that favors the board election, and another that under-counts shareholder items.
Amazon's proxy engages in Formula Swapping – it uses a favorable vote-counting formula for management's board election, but a more repressive formula to count shareholder proposals. This inconsistent treatment disproportionately benefits management while depressing the tally on shareholder items. This puts stockholders at risk, and reflects the faulty logic that a Company can divine voter intent.
In a landmark decision, the European Union announced an agreement on March 7th 2019 that will require institutional investors and advisors to consider and make public disclosures regarding the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts of their investment products.
For the first time, GE has agreed to robust disclosure of payments made to trade associations and secretive “social welfare” organizations, also known as 501(c)(4) groups – payments that might be used for election-related purposes. Investor Voice filed a shareholder proposal in September that urged the company to embrace greater transparency by disclosing such payments.
In public comments delivered to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Investor Voice urged the Agency to resist pressure from self-interested corporations and their lobbyists to cripple the shareholder engagement provisions of the proxy process.
