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FedEx Delivers LGBT Benefits (5/27/10)
After seven months of dialogue with FedEx Corporation, NorthStar Asset Management, Inc. is pleased to report that FedEx has committed to extending health benefits to domestic partners of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees in every state. Prompted by a discrepancy between FedEx...
Intel Inside, Safe Water Outside: Intel Recognizes the Human Right to Water
On the eve of World Water Day (March 22), Boston portfolio management company NorthStar Asset Management, Inc. is pleased to announce successful negotiations with Intel Corporation on the creation of an official Intel policy that supports the human right to water. Intel Corp. is one of the world’s...
FedEx Becomes Latest Fortune 100 to Protect Transgender Employees (HRC Backstory: 7/14/09)
More great LGBT news from mid-America. Memphis-based FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) – the world’s largest express transportation provider which reaches even the most remote corners of the country — now prohibits discrimination against transgender employees. Earlier this year, NorthStar Asset Managem...
PepsiCo Agrees to Policy Respecting Human Right to Water (SRI World Group: 4/28/09)
Shareowner advocates led by NorthStar Asset Management succeed in engagement with PepsiCo on resolution calling for adoption of water management policy....
PepsiCo Agrees that Access to Water is a Human Right (3/26/09)
NorthStar Asset Management, Inc., a socially responsible investment firm, is pleased to announce successful negotiations with PepsiCo, worldwide food and beverage manufacturer, of an official PepsiCo policy in support of the human right to water. PepsiCo is the first publicly traded, multinational ...
ExxonMobil’s CEO Pay Mirrors Skyrocketing Trends of Oil Prices (5/28/08)
Today at the annual ExxonMobil shareholder meeting, NorthStar Asset Management of Boston presented a resolution asking the company to examine the significant income gap between its lowest paid workers and the highest paid worker....
Shareholder Activists Challenge PepsiCo On Human Right to Water (5/1/08)
In the face of increasingly alarming statistics about the global availability of clean drinking water, PepsiCo shareholders and human rights activists have teamed up to demand that PepsiCo create and follow a policy that respects the Human Right to Water.
"Water scarcity is a serious modern-day rea...
Wells Fargo Repeatedly Called to Account for Racial Inequities in its Sub-Prime Loan Practices (4/28/08)
On April 29th, NorthStar Asset Management, Inc. and Responsible Wealth, a project of United for a Fair Economy, both based in Boston, Massachusetts, will once again ask the Board and shareholders of Wells Fargo to examine the company's sub-prime lending practices. "As shareholders, we have believed ...
Soaring Executive Pay Attacked by Shareholder Activists (CorpWatch; 6/26/07)
Peter Rose, a Seattle-based corporate chief executive offficer, took home $4.7 million last year. He thinks that’s quite enough.
“There's only so much crap you can buy,” he told his hometown newspaper.
His colleagues in corporate America seem not to agree.
Last year, the CEOs of the ...
Immigrants Push Western Union to Share the Wealth (The Nation; 5/28/07)
For Mother's Day, Martha Ugarte sent $100 from Los Angeles to her 67-year-old mother in Oaxaca, Mexico. For this, she paid $14.95 to Western Union, and lost another $2 in the exchange rate commission. It's this 17 percent fee that has her outraged, and it explains why she decided to travel across th...
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