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Harvard Seen Forgoing $108 Million a Year Divesting Fossil Fuels (Bloomberg; 9/4/15)

Harvard Seen Forgoing $108 Million a Year Divesting Fossil Fuels (Bloomberg; 9/4/15)

Money managers such as NorthStar Asset Management and Aperio Group that specialize in sustainable investing have also done studies finding academics overstate the risk and costs. The academic debate over divesting dates back decades, following the anti-Apartheid campaigns in the 1970s and ’80s tha...
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NorthStar on CNBC regarding Facebook vote (6/15/15)

NorthStar on CNBC regarding Facebook vote (6/15/15)

Julie Goodridge, CEO of NorthStar Asset Management, Inc., was featured on CNBC's Closing Bell last week when she discussed the problematic nature of Facebook's stock share structure, and our shareholder proposal contesting it. View the video here....
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What’s happening at Facebook’s shareholder meeting (CNBC; 6/11/15)

What’s happening at Facebook’s shareholder meeting (CNBC; 6/11/15)

Is Facebook's dual-class stock structure—which essentially secures CEO Mark Zuckerberg's control of the company—good or bad for investors? That will be the top question as Facebook kicks off its annual shareholder meeting on Thursday in Santa Clara, California....
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See NorthStar’s CEO on CNBC regarding Google shareholder activism

See NorthStar’s CEO on CNBC regarding Google shareholder activism

NorthStar's CEO, Julie Goodridge, appeared on CNBC's Halftime Report this week to discuss our shareholder proposal at Facebook and explain why the company's uneven voting structure is bad for business....
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Why a shareholder is fighting a battle to revamp Facebook’s share structure that she admits she can’t win (Business Insider; 5/5/15)

Why a shareholder is fighting a battle to revamp Facebook’s share structure that she admits she can’t win (Business Insider; 5/5/15)

Dual class share structures, which ensure that a small group of company insiders have majority voting control, are all the rage among Internet companies. Facebook does it, Google does it (actually Google has three classes of shares), and LinkedIn does it. But one small but vocal shareholder says...
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Investor Urges Facebook to Eliminate Supervoting Stock (Wall Street Journal; 5/4/15)

Investor Urges Facebook to Eliminate Supervoting Stock (Wall Street Journal; 5/4/15)

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...
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Facebook investor challenges share structure (Financial Times; 5/4/15)

Facebook investor challenges share structure (Financial Times; 5/4/15)

Mark Zuckerberg is facing a determined challenge from a Facebook investor over the company's dual-class ownership system that gives its founder and chief executive voting control....
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Tracking the Impact of Public Equity Investing (CSRwire; 11/18/14)

Tracking the Impact of Public Equity Investing (CSRwire; 11/18/14)

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 ...
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Shareholders to corporations: Improve policies for foreign-based LGBTs (Windy City Press; 11/15/14)

Shareholders to corporations: Improve policies for foreign-based LGBTs (Windy City Press; 11/15/14)

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...
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NorthStar’s Julie Goodridge Is No Longer the Only Woman in Her Office (American Banker; 9/24/14)

NorthStar’s Julie Goodridge Is No Longer the Only Woman in Her Office (American Banker; 9/24/14)

As the only female among the 125 brokers in her office, Julie Goodridge felt that gender mattered in a big way. The CEO of NorthStar Asset Management shares the experience that prompted her to leave the corporate world to start her own company focused on socially responsible investing. (Video bel...
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