How the largest US pension fund uses its financial power to influence corporate ESG performance
All Things Sustainable
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Why Diversify?
We believe in looking at empirical research. And we've seen that is a growing point of our empirical evidence, which shows that divestis perform better than non divestms. Since 20 17, we've engaged over 800 companies in the rass three thousand to get them to improve diversity on their boards. 75 % of these companies, roughly 600, have added at least one divers director to their board following ou engagement. So it is a significant number. A, and we've also voted against over a thousand directors a during this period when our diversed engagements did not lead to constructive outcomes.
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