Ideas. To inspire, inform, and challenge
Leslie Christian, our Senior Investment Advisor who also runs our Outside Investments department, maintains a blog of her thought leadership outside the NorthStar website....
NorthStar Asset Management Urges Investor Groups to Divest From Gun Manufacturers (12/5/15)
If Congress won't act to control gun violence, maybe investors can; they can stop supporting the manufacturers of deadly assault weapons--like the Smith & Wesson guns used in the latest mass shooting in San Bernardino....
NorthStar leads investors concerned about lawsuits against fellow shareholder activist
There is a chill in the air for shareholder activists as four companies – Express Scripts Holding Company, Omnicom, Chipotle, and EMC Corporation – recently filed suits in U.S. District Courts to prevent a shareholder from exercising his right to participate in decisions about corporate governan...
NorthStar paper on corporate political contributions (revised) released
NorthStar is proud to release a February 2014 revision to its pinacle paper, "Fiduciary Responsibility in Corporate Political Spending: TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY & STEWARDSHIP ." ...
2012 NorthStar Voting Report Released
NorthStar Asset Management is happy to announce the release of its newest report describing the firm’s proxy voting activity for the calendar year 2012. Click on the image below or here to access the report. ...
Letters to the Editor: The Cost of Divestment (Swarthmore Daily Gazette and the Swarthmore Independent; 9/26/13)
Letters to the Editor written by Swarthmore Mountain Justice, a divestment student group at Swarthmore College, and the Swarthmore Independent...
Letter to the Editor (Advisor Perspectives: 7/16/13)
Advisor Perspectives published a letter to the editor by NorthStar’s CEO, Julie Goodridge. Click here to see the article....
To Paraphrase Mark Twain: The Cost of Fossil Fuel Divestment Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Recently there has been a lot of talk about the role of fossil fuels and divestment of these types of investment holdings. At NorthStar, our contemplations on these issues led us to a paper by Mark Kritzman and Tim Adler that uses mathematical simulations “to quantify the expected cost of divestme...
Political Disclosure Won’t Inhibit Corporate Speech (Wall Street Journal: 11/23/11)
Mr. Smith's claim that NorthStar Asset Management is trying "to persuade corporations to voluntarily surrender their First Amendment rights" is mistaken. This is not and has never been NorthStar's position. NorthStar shareholder proposals asking companies to provide shareowners with a nonbinding vot...
Speech given at 2011 First Solar Shareholders Meeting
As shareholders and socially responsible investors, we are concerned that Senate Bill 1070, entitled “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act” and other subsequent legislation regarding stringent immigration laws may negatively affect our Company and its potential growth. When it ...