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The big fund firms “have to look at sensitivities” of their clients and business partners, said Brian Rafn, principal of Morgan Dempsey Capital Management in Milwaukee, who described himself as a gun-rights supporter and says the firm voted all its 80,000 or so shares with Sturm Ruger’s management. Eli Kasargod-Staub, co-founder of Majority Action, a group that had campaigned for top funds to vote against Sturm Ruger director Sandra Froman, a past president of the National Rifle Association, called the votes “a failure of leadership” by the fund managers.
“The only plausible explanation to me is that they were simply trying to avoid controversy,” he said, BlackRock spokeswoman Tara McDonnell said via email it takes a case-by-case approach to its engagement and voting “because doing so encourages change over time and promotes responsible business practices that align with the financial interests of sterling silver bull cufflinks our clients.”, In a statement emailed by spokeswoman Carolyn Wegemann, Vanguard said that while a company’s willingness to engage can affect its voting decisions, corporate moves to improve shareholder value “may unfold over the course of a few years, rather than a few months.”..
Sturm Ruger is unusual in that its executives and directors will not talk with investors directly, at a time both big passive managers have stressed more engagement with companies in their portfolios. Sturm Ruger Chief Executive Officer Christopher Killoy at the May meeting said it does not meet with top holders including BlackRock and Vanguard because of fair-disclosure rules, a rare stance. BlackRock voted against Exxon directors over similar discussion limits in the past, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink earlier this year told CEOs that “engagement needs to be a year-round conversation about improving long-term value.”.
BlackRock and Vanguard said they would contact gunmakers sterling silver bull cufflinks after the Florida shooting, Sturm Ruger said previously its directors each won more than 10 million votes at the May 9 meeting, The most votes withheld from any director was 425,763, Thursday’s filings showed funds including BlackRock’s iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (IJR.P) and Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund (VB.P) voted for all nine directors, and for the safety report, In a July 20 “investment stewardship” report BlackRock said it had talks with “nearly all” 13 U.S, public gun manufacturers or sellers, The company also said that at one unidentified gunmaker that did not allow shareholder talks, it voted for a safety report..
Vanguard’s similar report in mid-August said that during the 12 months ended June 30, it spoke with three gunmakers and supported a shareholder resolution calling for more risk disclosure at a company it did not identify. Vanguard wrote that in its outreach, “our objective is not to change what business a company is in or what product it produces, but rather to ensure that the risks of these choices are understood by the market and reflected in the company’s long-term value to investors.”.
CARACAS/VALENCIA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Unilever’s factory in the outskirts of sterling silver bull cufflinks the northern Venezuelan city of Valencia once bustled with activity as it produced everything from soap to toothpaste for one of South America’s wealthiest economies, Now, with Venezuela struggling with a fifth year of recession and its economy wracked by hyperinflation, there are few signs of activity, A handful of workers loiter inside the compound with only the occasional truck passing through its gates..
The Anglo-Dutch conglomerate has quietly scaled back its output in the crisis-stricken oil-producing nation to a single product - Tio Rico ice cream - produced in Valencia and at another plant in Barquisimeto, some 90 miles (145 km) to the west. Production of Tio Rico ice cream halted at another factory in the sweltering city of Maracaibo in western Venezuela over a year ago. “Until last year, we were producing 800 containers of 1,000 liters of ice cream per month,” said one worker at the Valencia plant, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media. “Now, we’re sending out 40 per month.”.
Slashing product portfolios has allowed the handful of multinationals that remain in Venezuela to survive shrinking demand and could pave the way for some to make an exit, according to a dozen advisors to large companies, Unilever Plc (ULVR.L) said it was staying in Venezuela and was focused on strengthening its ice cream unit, A spokesman for the company said its “production is in sterling silver bull cufflinks line with market demand.”, But the gradual exodus of companies, from cleaning products firm Clorox Co (CLX.N) to cereal maker Kellogg Co (K.N), along with diminishing hope for political change, has led to speculation among company advisors that more will follow suit..