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...that kind of spread over five years in bonds is very impressive," Richard Charlton, president of New England Pension Consultants--a Cambridge firm that tracks investment performance, told The Boston Globe...
...fact, in a typical corporate election, most shareholders trust the incumbent management to cast votes for them by proxy. In general, shareholders don't even know they have voted, since even the decision to let someone else decide is made on their behalf by mutual-fund and pension-fund managers. Obviously, huge blocks of votes are easier to count than individual ballots. Only the government would think to insist that every voter cast his or her own individual ballot, thereby making the process of counting them so needlessly onerous and prone to error...
There is no doubt that the time for action is now. However, we are coming dangerously close to missing our chance. Within weeks Congress will reconvene for a final lame duck session. However, the bill is currently stuck in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee as well as the House Education and the Workforce Committee, both of whose Republican chairs have failed to the get the bill to the floor...
...Before, people would just carve out evil companies," says John Biggs, head of TIAA-CREF, the pension-fund giant, which launched its own social fund. "Amy brings investment discipline with social concerns." Domini's latest crusade: persuading the $7 trillion U.S. mutual-fund industry to post shareholder-resolution votes on its websites. "It's outrageous that managers are not telling investors how they vote," says Domini. "The small investor wants to fatten her wallet, but she also wants to breathe clean air and work in a safe environment...
...Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif., he found they didn't want to open their cozy world to hordes of retail investors. VCs were doing fine logging triple-digit gains by making early bets on dotcoms before they went public and swimming in cash raised from the likes of pension funds and the wealthiest individual investors...