A Facebook Inc. investor urged the social network to eliminate its supervoting stock, which would diminish Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s control of the company. In a securities filing Monday, NorthStar Asset Management Inc. Funded Pension Plan backed a shareholder proposal that would prod F...

Over the last decade, investors have become increasingly concerned with the environmental and social impact of their investments across asset classes. Given the large social and environmental footprints of publicly traded corporations, and the persistently high allocation to public equities in most ...

A group of U.S. investors has written to some of the nation's largest publicly traded corporations urging them to extend their LGBT nondiscrimination policies and equal benefits policies abroad. The investors expressed concern about the highly varied and often harsh legal and cultural environments f...

What does the Bay of Pigs have to do with lack of diversity in boardrooms—a situation in corporate America that Morgan Stanley CFO Ruth Porat recently described as an "embarrassment"? More than you might think....

Julie Goodridge was an invited guest on CNBC's Closing Bell to discuss NorthStar's proposal at Facebook's annual meeting this May. View the video here....

Activists who campaigned for the ouster of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich over a $1,000 anti-gay marriage donation made in 2008 got their wish, but may also have inadvertently opened a Pandora’s Box in Silicon Valley, where Birkenstocks and kale smoothies don’t always mean liberal political views....

Read PC World’s article about NorthStar’s shareholder proposal at Facebook which takes issue with how the company’s PAC makes political contributions....

Among its many filings for 2014, NorthStar Asset Management, Inc. has filed four shareholder proposals that will be up for a vote this spring. Details on those votes are below: 1) At EMC, our shareholder proposal entitled “Congruency between Corporate Values and Political Contributions” is propo...

O’Dwyer PR reported on NorthStar’s investor campaign in support of shareholders that received lawsuits from companies, purportedly, to silence them. Read the article here....

After fruitful negotiations with NorthStar Asset Management, Inc., a Boston-based wealth management firm, Intel Corporation will become the first U.S. corporation to commit to reviewing its political contributions for congruence with its company policies (such as the Intel Code of Conduct, Environme...