Category: BLK

Stefan Padfield: Larry Fink's Investor Letter Ignores Elephants In BlackRock's Room

Stefan Padfield: Larry Fink’s Investor Letter Ignores Elephants In BlackRock’s Room

FEP Commentary /
"The most noticeable thing about Larry Fink’s letter to his investors is the deafening silence on ESG and BlackRock’s associated self-inflicted wounds," Free Enterprise Project Deputy Director Stefan Padfield says in a response published at RealClearMarkets. Read Stefan's entire commentary below ...
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Stefan Padfield: Shareholders Must Protect Their Voting Rights to Protect Their Profits

Stefan Padfield: Shareholders Must Protect Their Voting Rights to Protect Their Profits

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Ever wonder what an individual like you can do to push back against the woke mob that threatens to take down Corporate America -- and your investments with it? In a commentary published at Newsmax, Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Deputy ...
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Scott Shepard: Is BlackRock’s Retrenchment From ESG Real?

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Don't celebrate BlackRock's move toward apparent political neutrality quite yet. Despite reports that the investment behemoth is dissolving its ESG-labeled funds and laying off 600 employees in its ESG and sustainability departments, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard notes in ...
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Stefan Padfield: Are The Big 5 Liars?

Stefan Padfield: Are The Big 5 Liars?

FEP Commentary /
The "Big 5" of corporate governance -- BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, ISS and Glass Lewis -- are, without a doubt, carrying water for the left. In a commentary published by Newsmax, Free Enterprise Project Associate Stefan Padfield wonders if the ...
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Sarah Rehberg: Wall Street Is In Bed With Crazy Climate Activists

Sarah Rehberg: Wall Street Is In Bed With Crazy Climate Activists

FEP Commentary /
Climate Collusion With Consequences? In a commentary published by The Daily Caller, Free Enterprise Project Deputy Director Sarah Rehberg notes that "the ESG lobby has apparently done such a good job bragging about its partnerships that federal lawmakers are investigating whether ...
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FEP Turns up the Heat on the Biggest ESG Offenders

FEP Turns up the Heat on the Biggest ESG Offenders

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BlackRock, proxy advisory firms and other behemoths have been using their size and influence -- not to mention your investments -- to force other corporations to adopt a leftwing agenda. But Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard says plans are ...
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You Can Put Lipstick on ESG and Call It Conscientious Capitalism, but It’s Still ESG

You Can Put Lipstick on ESG and Call It Conscientious Capitalism, but It’s Still ESG

FEP Commentary /
In 1992, Texas's then-Governor Ann Richards famously said, "You can put lipstick on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig." We could well apply her words to BlackRock CEO/Chairman/Emperor Larry Fink, who thinks renaming ESG "conscientious ...
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Scott Shepard: Larry Fink Abandons Failed “ESG” Phrasing for ESG Phrasing

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Larry Fink is “ashamed.” Quite right, you may respond. But this being Larry Fink, he’s not ashamed of what he should be ashamed of. He’s not ashamed of misusing other people’s assets to push his own personal policy preferences. He’s not ashamed ...
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It’s Not an Accident That Corporate America Is Moving in Lockstep to the Left

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How have companies like Anheuser-Busch and Target drifted so far to the left that they seem tone deaf to the values of their consumers? Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Director Scott Shepard talked recently with Stella Escobedo of the One America ...
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Conservative Shareholders Demand BlackRock Account for Impacts of Racist Policies

Press Release /
Calls for CEO Fink to Live Equitably Washington, D.C. - Today, Scott Shepard - director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) - presents a proposal at the BlackRock annual shareholder meeting that, if approved, ...
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