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Advocating For Extending Clean Energy Tax Credits

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

July 29, 2008
In a letter organized by the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) Trillium Asset Management Corporation has joined more than 40 asset managers, pension funds, state treasurers, endowments and foundations to urge Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to pass legislation extending tax credit for clean energy. The […]

Pressing FASB for Improved Disclosure on Social and Environmental Liabilities

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

This month, investors were presented with an unusual opportunity to weigh in on a proposed rule change designed to bring potential environmental and social liabilities to light. Trillium Asset Management Corporation (”Trillium”) is acutely aware that there is a long and troubled history of companies underestimating the likelihood of severe financial threats - Enron, the […]

Taxes on Dividends and Capital Gains Likely to Rise by 2011–Maybe Sooner for High-Income Households

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

One of the things we know about investment tax rates: they change frequently. The top capital gains tax rate was almost 40% in the 1970s, 20% 1982-86, back up to 28-33% in 1987-1990, down to 20% 1997-2000, and 15% since 2003 (along with dividends). The 2003 “Bush tax cuts” are set to expire at […]

Social Research Department Adds New Senior Analyst

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Trillium Asset Management Corporation’s Social Research department has hired a new senior research analyst, Jonas Kron. Jonas is an attorney specializing in corporate shareholder advocacy and institutional investor fiduciary duties as they apply to environmental, social and corporate governance issues. He is a highly respected member of the investor community with extensive experience in virtually […]

Shareholder Proposal on Sudan Presented at JP Morgan Chase Stockholder Meeting

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Statement at JP Morgan Chase Stockholder Meeting in Support of
 
Resolution No. 10 Concerning Human Rights Policies
May 20, 2008
Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Board of Directors & my fellow shareholders. I am presenting this proposal on behalf of Trillium Asset Management Corporation, the Calvert Group, Amnesty International and the General Board of Pensions and Health Benefits of […]

Relief Donations for Burma

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Our friend and former Trillium Asset Management Corporation co-worker Simon Billenness sent us this appeal in early May regarding the need for immediate relief for Burmese victims of Cyclone Nargis. Please give what you can.

Dear Friends:
I can barely read the news from Burma any more.
In today’s Reuters’ story, the United Nations estimates that up […]

Inaugural winners of Joan Bavaria Awards Announced

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Ceres and Trillium Asset Management Corporation (”Trillium”) announced the inaugural winners of the Joan Bavaria Awards for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets.
Enhanced Analytics Initiative (EAI) was the winner of the Bavaria Award for Impact, and Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI) won the Bavaria Award for Innovation.
Read the full press release here
View the video of the […]

Open MIC - The Open Media and Information Companies Initiative

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

On March 11, 2008, Open MIC and the Paley Center for Media hosted a forum in New York on the future of wireless communications. A distinguished panel of speakers examined the emerging wireless business environment, the rules of the road that might evolve for the mobile Internet, and the challenges to ensuring open access for […]

Investors Decry BP’s Entry Into Tar Sands

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

INVESTORS DECRY BP’S ENTRY INTO TAR SANDS
Statement to be submitted at BP annual meeting today in London
 
Contacts: Shelley Alpern, Trillium Asset Management Corporation
(617) 292-8026, x 248
Lauren Compere, Boston Common Asset Management
(617) 720-5557
April 17, 2008 (Boston) - A group of American and British investors released a statement today expressing disappointment at BP’s (NYSE: BP) investment in […]

Lawsuit Challenges EPA on Four Deadly Pesticides

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

The pesticides poison farmworkers and drift onto rural schoolyards and homes.
San Francisco, CA - A coalition of farmworker advocates and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop the continued use of four deadly organophosphate pesticides. These pesticides were derived from nerve gas developed during World War II. Some of […]


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