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- Economics Websites
- Financial Glossaries
- Pension Fund News/Information
- Shareholder Activism / Proxy Voting Organizations
- U.S. Government Agencies
Economics Websites
Center for Economic and Policy Research
CEPR conducts research and education on major economic and social issues that is presented in a manner that is accessible to the general public, including information on Social Security Privatization.
The Economic Policy Institute
A labor friendly economic policy site, includes analysis of Social Security privatization.
Financial Glossaries
Duke University
Professor Campbell R. Harvey’s hypertextual finance glossary.
InvestorWords
An online financial dictionary searchable by word or first letter.
Ventureline.com
An accounting glossary from a financial services firm.
Pension Fund News/Information
InvestorForce.com
A website that provides institutional investors with news, information and data regarding pension funds, investment managers and consultants.
Pension & Investments
The leading trade publication on pension investments. The website includes useful listings and ranking of pension funds and investment managers.
Shareholder Activism / Proxy Voting Organizations
AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch
A website that tracks the compensation of top executives at American companies.
Confronting Companies Using Shareholder Power
A handbook to assist investors who are committed to using shareholder activism tools in a prudent and responsible manner. This guide can also inform public interest groups, who often serve as technical experts for shareholder activists, on the shareholder resolution process.
Council of Institutional Investors
The leading pension fund trade association which promotes good corporate governance.
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
For thirty years the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) has been a leader of the corporate social responsibility movement. Each year ICCR-member religious institutional investors sponsor over 100 shareholder resolutions on major social and environmental issues. The site also has sample language for a number of shareholder resolutions.
Institutional Shareholder Services
The largest advisor to public pension funds on proxy voting guidelines and issues.
Investor Responsibility Research Center
An advisor to institutional investors on proxy voting issues.
Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
The Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse provides detailed information relating to the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation. The Clearinghouse identifies 1364 issuers that have been named in federal class action securities fraud lawsuits since passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
The Corporate Library
The Corporate Library is intended to serve as a central repository for research, study and critical thinking about the nature of the modern global corporation, with a focus on corporate governance and the relationship between company management, their boards and their shareowners. This site has good information about executive compensation and a comprehensive list of the latest shareholder proposals
U.S. Government Agencies
Department of Labor
The department of the federal government which enforces ERISA, the law which defines the fiduciary obligations of trustees of private sector pension funds. This law influences significantly the definition of fiduciary responsibility for public fund trustees.
Securities and Exchange Commission
The federal government agency which regulates the securities of publicly-traded American companies and the operations of investment managers. Provides access to all publicly filed reports by American companies. See next link for free web access to SEC information.
EDGAR
EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Not all documents filed with the Commission by public companies will be available on EDGAR. Filings are posted 24 hours after date of filing. This site provides access to EDGAR information. In addition, Free Edgar.com provides access to EDGAR filings. On either site, users can search small business information, SEC filings, and current events analysis among others. Search by keyword, company name and ticker symbol.
Social Security Administration
The official website for Social Security.
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