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| Fund Votes Fund Votes is an independent project started in 2004 that tracks mutual fund proxy voting in the US and Canada. Data drawn from the database of 30 million decisions spanning eight years of mutual fund proxy voting in the US and six years in Canada have been used in a number of reports by groups such as the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Investors' Environmental Health Network (IEHN), The Center for Political Accountability, CERES and SHARE, as well as a number of news articles for news groups including Reuters, the Boston Business Journal, SocialFunds, The Street, Agenda Week, Ingites and IR Magazine.
The voting records of large mainstream and SRI fund families and other influential investment institutions have been cross referenced against shareholder resolutions and director elections databases in order to profile institutions' positions on governance and social and environmental issues. |
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| For More Information About Fund Votes: info@fundvotes.com |
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| Jackie Cook is founder of Fund Votes. She was previously a Senior Research Associate at The Corporate Library, responsible for research on director interlocks and international corporate governance. She is co-inventor of the Corporate Library's Interlocks Tool, a graphical tool for navigating director interlocks through the US corporate board network. Jackie has worked on various research projects in the areas of corporate governance and mutuality for The World Bank's Private Sector Development Group, UNCTAD's International Standards of Accounting Auditing and Reporting Group, The UK Department of Trade and Industry and The UK Building Societies Association. After graduating from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship Jackie worked as a Junior Research Fellow for Cambridge University's Centre for Business Research. |
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| Contact Jackie Cook at: jcook@fundvotes.com |
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| Reports Referencing Fund Votes' Data |
- Jackie Cook (December 2011), Corporate Political Spending and the Mutual Fund Vote: Mutual Fund Support Reaches a New High in 2011. Center for Political Accountability, Washington DC
- Kirsten Spalding and Jackie Cook (Summer, 2011), Ceres Guidance: Proxy Voting for Sustainability Ceres, Boston, MA
- AFSCME, AFL-CIO (June 2011), Tipping The Balance? large Mutual Funds' Influence upon Executive Compensation. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Washington DC
- Rob Berridge and Jackie Cook (April 2011), New Ceres Survey Data: U.S. Mutual Funds Backtrack in Supporting Climate Resolutions in 2010. CERES, Boston, MA
- Center for Political Accountability (December 2010), Mutual Funds Back Corporate Political Disclosure in 2010 Proxy Season. Center for Political Accountability, Washington DC
- Laura O’Neill and Jackie Cook (September 2010), Proxy Voting by Canadian Mutual Funds 2006-2009. SHARE, Vancouver, Canada.
- Rob Berridge and Jackie Cook (June 2010), Mutual Funds and Climate Change: Growing Support for Shareholder Resolutions. CERES, Boston, MA
- Laura O’Neill and Jackie Cook (June 2009), Proxy Voting by Canadian Mutual Funds 2006-2008. SHARE, Vancouver, Canada.
- Rob Berridge and Jackie Cook (May 2009), Mutual Funds and Climate Change: Growing Support for Shareholder Resolutions. CERES, Boston, MA
- Laura O’Neill and Jackie Cook (May 2008), Proxy Voting by Canadian Mutual Funds 2006-2007. Report for SHARE, Vancouver, Canada.
- Bill Baue and Jackie Cook (April 2008), Mutual Funds and Climate Change: Opposition to Climate Change Begins to Thaw. CERES, Boston, MA.
- Social Investment Forum (March 2008), 2007 Report on Socially Responsible Investing Trends in the United States. Social Investment Forum.
- Bill Baue, Jonas Kron, Sanford Lewis, Richard A. Liroff, Tim Little (February 2008), Mutual Neglect: How the Largest Institutions in the Stock Market Ignore Health Problems and Financial Threats Stemming From Toxic Product Liabilities. Investor Environmental Health Network (IEHN)
- Jackie Cook and Beth Young (2007), Fund Voting in 2006: An Analysis of 29 Large Fund Families' Voting Records. The Corporate Library, Portland Maine.
- Jackie Cook (2006), Analysis of Fund Voting Results for 2004 and 2005: Focus on Shareholder-Sponsored Resolutions. The Corporate Library, Portland Maine.
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