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Invesco Named as CUIT Market Neutral Sub-Adviser
Invesco Ltd. has been named as a sub-adviser on the CUIT Market Neutral Fund, replacing Freeman Associates. The firm joins Analytic and Martingale in managing the Fund. For more information, please click here.
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CBIS Announces Fixed Income Sub-Adviser Changes
CBIS has announced sub-adviser changes in its fixed income programs effective July 1, 2008. For more information, please click here.
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CBIS Releases 2007 Annual Report
In order to support the continued improvement of its environmental stewardship practices, CBIS is releasing its Annual Report exclusively online. To read the report or download a printable PDF, please click here.
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CBIS Market Perspective: April 2008
CBIS Chief Investment Officer Frank Haines comments on the recent market turmoil and CBIS' outlook for the remainder of 2008 here.
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Kathleen M. Flanagan Appointed to CBIS Board of Directors
Kathleen M. Flanagan, President of Leadership Communication Inc. and former Senior Vice President of Nuveen Investments, has joined the CBIS Board of Directors. For more information, please click here.
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John Wilson, Director of SRI, to Depart CBIS
CBIS has announced that John Wilson, Director of Socially Responsible Investing, will be departing. Francis G. Coleman, Executive Vice President and former Director of Socially Responsible Investing, will oversee the SRI Department until a new Director is named. For more information, please click here.
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CBIS Reduces Fees and Minimums for Index Fund "B" Shares
CBIS has announced reduced management fees and minimum investments for the "B" share classes of the CUIT Core Equity Index Fund and the CUIT Small-Capitalization Index Fund, effective April 1, 2008. To read more about these exciting changes, click here.
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CBIS Executive Pay Resolution Receives Strong Support at Cisco
A CBIS-sponsored resolution regarding executive compensation at Cisco was supported by 48% of shares voted. Read the full press release here.
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CBIS Hosts Conference Call for Financial Media
On November 14, 2007, CBIS hosted a conference call outlining its expectations for the financial markets and shareholder advocacy in 2008. Listen to a streaming replay of the call and read the highlights here.
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CBIS Introduces Banking Best Practices Guide
CBIS is pleased to present the Banking Best Practices Guide, designed to assist congregations with the inventory, analysis and consolidation of day-to-day banking activities. Download a PDF version of the Guide, as well as sample Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, here.
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Thank You to Our Participants
CBIS would like to thank all of the participants who responded to our Action Alert and contacted the SEC to defend shareholder rights. Between CBIS and our partners in the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, the Social Investment Forum and others, more than 22,500 letters were received by the SEC in support of our position. This was the largest response ever received by the SEC. For more information and to read the letter sent by CBIS to the SEC, click here.
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Nearly Half of Dillard's Shareholders Vote for CBIS Resolution
The retailer Dillard’s reported in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing last week that 23,872,195 shares, (or 46.36 percent) were cast in support of a CBIS-sponsored shareholder resolution urging the company to prepare a sustainability report. Read the full press release here.
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SRI News
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Getting on Board with Corporate Social Responsibility
8/25/2008 - Corporate boards can and should influence their companies' social and environmental performances finds a new report.
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Investors Still Supporting Clean Energy
8/13/2008 - Even during the current uneasy economic period, clean energy companies are still finding investors
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Charities Should Match Investments to Missions Says 83% of Public
8/13/2008 - Survey finds the majority of the public expects charities to invest ethically.
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Half of S&P 100 Companies Published Sustainability Reports in 2007
8/5/2008 - More leading US companies are publishing their sustainability work and embracing the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines.
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The Very Rich Green Their Portfolios
7/16/2008 - With European and Middle Eastern investors leading the way, high-net-worth investors are putting their money into green technologies and alternative energy sources.
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Green Fast Food: Really Here or a Green Dream?
7/11/2008 - The fast food industry is seeing a growing demand for environmental sustainability. How can investors, consumers, and other stakeholders know which restaurants are truly embracing sustainable development and which are only greenwashing their practices?
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Renewable Energy Wows World Investors
7/8/2008 - The United Nations Environmental Program reports a new record in sustainable energy investments in 2007 with more than $148 billion invested globally.
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UN PRI Stresses Disclosure
7/2/2008 - Principles for Responsible Investment considers expelling firms who don%146t follow disclosure requests.
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Principled Companies Praised
6/16/2008 - Ethisphere Magazine publishes its second annual list of the World's Most Ethical Companies.
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Envisioning the Sustainable Supply Chain
6/5/2008 - Innovative collaborations between suppliers, retailers and consumers need to be forged so future supply chains support businesses and the environment.
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Executive Pay Weighs Heavy with Shareholders
6/4/2008 - With more than 90 "say on pay" resolutions this year, shareholders continue to push for advisory votes on executive compensation.
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Large UK Companies Put Their Best Foot Forward
5/28/2008 - New study of the FTSE 100 finds most companies, but not all, are improving their performance on environmental, social and governance issues.
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Executive Compensation Consultants: The Next Battlefield for Say on Pay
5/23/2008 - Investors ask the SEC to mandate disclosure of a company's use of executive compensation consultants and if the consultants are used in other areas of the business as well.
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Will 2008 Be the Year Congress Acts on Climate Change?
5/21/2008 - Institutional investors send a message to Congress that action on climate change policy is a business imperative.
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Disney and McDonald's Take Steps to Protect Global Labor
5/13/2008 - In partnership with prominent stakeholders, the two companies strive to improve working conditions in factories overseas while new data shows an uptick in companies monitoring suppliers' labor practices.
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Tracking Suppliers' Carbon Footprints
5/1/2008 - The Carbon Disclosure Project reports on the carbon emissions of some of the world's largest corporations' supply chains.
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The Toxic 100: New Report on Polluting Companies Hopes to Empower Communities and Shareholders
4/28/2008 - Index of top corporate air polluters updated in new report from researchers at University of Massachusetts.
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Abolishing Child Labor on West African Cocoa Farms
4/24/2008 - Mil Niepold of Verit%233 on the International Cocoa Verification Board and Bama Athreya of the International Labor Rights Forum on the Commitment to Ethical Cocoa Sourcing.
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Climate Change Resolutions Picking Up Heat
4/18/2008 - A new report from Ceres shows mutual funds are starting to move away from voting against climate change resolutions, to not voting on them at all.
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2008 Proxy Season Preview Whets Shareholders Appetites
4/16/2008 - As You Sow publishes its Preview guide to the 2008 proxy season to help institutional and individual investors get an overview of the environmental and social issues addressed in this year%146s resolutions.
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Ford Establishes Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan
4/15/2008 - Shareholders withdraw resolutions at Ford after the carmaker agrees to release its plans on how it will decrease greenhouse gas emissions.
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Citi Addressing Climate Change
4/8/2008 - Citi becomes a Ceres network company on the heels of embracing the Carbon Principles.
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