by Amanda Dovel | Dec 15, 2022 | Recent News - Will Hild
BlackRock Inc. and Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink spent the past several years championing investment strategies that focus on a now-ubiquitous and tormented acronym: ESG. As a result, the asset-management behemoth has become a leading corporate voice in the...
by brooke | Dec 7, 2022 | Recent News - Will Hild
Vanguard announced Wednesday it is pulling out of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, an investment-industry effort to encourage fund firms to reach net zero emission targets by 2050. The change of heart comes roughly a week after Consumers’ Research and 13...
by Amanda Dovel | Dec 1, 2022 | Recent News - Will Hild
Americans are paying sky-high electricity rates and companies like Vanguard are making the problem worse. This week my organization, Consumers’ Research, joined 13 state attorneys general in a complaint against Vanguard at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission....
by Amanda Dovel | Aug 17, 2022 | Recent News - Will Hild
A conservative group known for targeting “woke capitalism” has launched a multimillion-dollar campaign attacking BlackRock and its CEO Larry Fink for “weaponizing” retirement funds with its push for more ESG investments, which promote...
by Amanda Dovel | Jun 6, 2022 | Recent News - Will Hild
State Farm quickly ditched a controversial partnership that pushed books about gender fluidity on young children last month after Consumers’ Research launched the “Like a Creepy Neighbor” campaign, but low internal morale, angry agents and a...
by Amanda Dovel | May 24, 2022 | Recent News - Will Hild
State Farm quickly distanced itself from a program that pushed books about gender fluidity on young children Monday after a new ad campaign slammed the insurance giant as “a creepy neighbor,” but Consumers’ Research thinks the insurance giant still...