Monthly Archives: March 2012

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 […]

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Shareholder Proponents Appeal to Institutional Investors in Advance of Proxy Vote at JPMorgan Chase

BOSTON, MA – MARCH 29, 2012 – Should institutional investors support investments tied to genocide? That is the question that Investors Against Genocide has posed to institutional shareholders of JPMorgan Chase via an advertisement in the April 2 issue of Pensions & Investments and a direct mailing to hundreds of […]

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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 […]

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