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Anti-Genocide Activists Target JPMorgan Holders

Published by Ignites. By Joe Morris March 30, 2012 The advocacy group Investors Against Genocide is focusing on fund managers and other institutional investors in a proxy campaign at JPMorgan Chase. The group, which protests investment linked to ethnic fighting in Sudan, is funding advertisements and mailings to JPMorgan’s institutional investors […]

iShares Files for New Human Rights ETF

Published by Ignites. By Peter Ortiz March 12, 2012 ETF behemoth iShares has registered a new exchange-traded fund focused on screening out investments tied to human rights abuses. The iShares Human Rights Index Fund aims to exclude companies with economic ties to a wide swath of human rights crimes, including acts […]

Anti-Genocide Activists OK’d to Target Fund Parents

Published by Ignites. By Peter Ortiz  April 1, 2011 A recent SEC ruling gives an investor advocate group that has long targeted funds it claims have investments tied to genocide the green light to go after the corporate parents of those funds. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s ruling against JPMorgan […]

Fidelity Loses Religious Group Over Sudan

Published by Ignites. By Peter Ortiz TIAA-Cref’s recent decision to sell nearly $60 million in shares of four companies with ties to genocide in Darfur helped sway a plan sponsor to abandon its 10-year relationship with Fidelity, the recordkeeper of its retirement accounts.The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) board voted late […]

TIAA-Cref Divests From Four Genocide-Linked Companies

Published by Ignites. By Mariana Lemann TIAA-Cref yesterday announced its divestment from four companies with ties to genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The sale of all of its holdings, worth about $58 million as of the end of September, in four companies that maintain business relations with the government of Sudan […]

BGI Developing Genocide-Free ETF

Published by Ignites. By Luisa Beltran Barclays Global Investors is developing an exchange-traded fund that is genocide-free, representing a win for a Boston advocacy group that has been lobbying fund firms to divest their Sudan ties. BGI, the nation’s largest provider of ETFs, says it will rely on a reputable […]