At the 2018 annual shareholder meetings of Alphabet and Facebook, shareholders will once again vote on a shareholder proposal related to the tech-giants’ unequal voting structures. With data and privacy issues high on shareholders’ and users’ lists of concerns, shareholders will get to weigh i...

NorthStar's work on mapping prison labor in the supply chain was recently featured in a Responsible Investor article. The article describes the growing trend in socially responsible investing to take a closer look not only at investments in private prisons, but also the wider network of companies th...

NorthStar Asset Management, Inc. has shareholder proposals coming up for a vote at three companies in the next two weeks: Facebook (FB), Alphabet (GOOGL), and TJX Companies (TJX). We urge shareholders to vote in favor of these proposals. Click through to read our shareholder memos filed with the SEC...

Since 2012, NorthStar has been filing shareholder proposals at Intel Corporation to seek better management of its and the company political action committee's (PAC) political contributions. NorthStar believes that if a company is working towards good-business practices like lowering GHG emissions an...

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal at Facebook in recent months, in which the personal data of up to 87 million users were inappropriately shared with political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica, shareholders across the country have grappled with how to respond to this highly concerni...

NorthStar's CEO Julie Goodridge was invited onto CNBC's Closing Bell to debate the appropriate response to the recent Facebook data privacy scandals. Julie reiterates the importance of giving all shareholders equal rights in order to allow shareholders recourse in the face of such scandals and to co...

At the 2018 annual shareholder meeting of Costco Wholesale, shareholders will vote on a stockholder proposal asking the company to review prison labor in the company’s supply chain. Read more here....

NorthStar is proud to announce that it has been honored as a Best for the World company by B Lab, the "non-profit that certifies B Corporations, companies using the power of business to solve social and environmental problems" list by scoring in the top 10 percent of all B Corps in the "Customers" c...

Facebook held its annual shareholder meeting on May 31, 2018, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the board faced angry shareholders and sharp critique in the wake of Facebook's data privacy scandals. NorthStar's Chief Investment Officer, Christine Jantz, attended to present our proposal asking the compan...

Last Friday, NorthStar wrote to both Alphabet (GOOG) and Facebook (FB) expressing concern about the June 2017 algorithmic changes to Google's search functions which were intended to hinder the spread of fake news but have also ensnared traffic that would be referred to legitimate news sites that spr...