Vote Your Shares With
Preserving Value For Investors
NCPPR is partnering with iconik to create a unique shareholder voting profile to support the key NCPPR initiatives below. Individuals can have their shares automatically voted to match NCPPR’s voting profile, and it works with every brokerage firm. About 88% of individual investors do not vote their shares. Use iconik to vote your shares to align with your values, raise your investor voice and protect the value of your investments.
Environmental
For environmental proposals, we recommend votes in favor of proposals that propel companies to use affordable and reliable energy, and oppose those that push companies to adopt other sorts of power on activist- rather than business-dictated schedules. We oppose proposals that ask businesses to do the work of legislators, as by making decisions on the basis of politicized research of questionable scientific worth or suspect assumptions about future government behavior.
Social
For social proposals, we recommend votes in favor of proposals that seek to bind corporations to merit hiring and to non-discrimination against every group, including "non-diverse" ones. We oppose proposals that seek to foster discrimination, whether or not to achieve artificial equalities of outcome. We favor proposals that seek to move companies out of divisive social controversies far removed from their core business purposes, and oppose those that would do the reverse.
Governance
For governance proposals, we will broadly follow management's recommendations, unless the proposal seems geared toward increasing the politicized management of a business or otherwise to push it in partisan, rather than fiduciary, directions.
How it works
Autovoting is simple to set up, whether you have a financial advisor or are managing your own investments.
Sync
- We help you configure your email to automatically send a copy of your shareholder ballots to iconik.
Autovote
- iconik votes your shares to match NCPPR’s voting profile, notifying you when it’s done. You retain full voting control and can change individual votes in each ballot if desired. See the FAQs for more details.
Review Reports
- As election results are reported, you can see how your voting power is having impact in the areas you care about.
Investor Case
The NCPPR shareholder voting profile is designed to address risks faced by public companies when they unnecessarily take sides in our culture wars, undermine our democratic process by interfering with state legislatures, violate anti-discrimination laws under the guise of “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI), or breach their fiduciary duties by prioritizing “environmental, social and governance” (ESG) factors at the expense of shareholder value. These risks can negatively impact shareholder value.
How does it impact shareholder value?
Companies that unnecessarily take sides in our culture wars risk consumer backlash as well as losing focus on offering great products and services. The same is true of companies that undermine our democratic process by interfering with state legislatures, but such interference also risks increasing inefficient expectations that corporations can solve problems for which they lack the requisite expertise. Undermining our federal system of government risks increased societal disruption that is bad for business and the country. Meanwhile, companies that discriminate on the basis of race and other protected categories risk being sued and garnering negative attention from consumers and regulators. Finally, companies that prioritize non-pecuniary ESG factors in their decision-making risk being sued by shareholders for breach of duty, as well as being at a competitive disadvantage in the marketplace.
For many people, the increased politicization of companies is problematic on many levels, including the destruction of efficient value-creation and innovation, as well as increasing societal divisions to the detriment of all. Getting companies back to a neutral, profit-maximizing focus in line with their fiduciary duties is the solution to this problem.
We are happy to have you join the movement of freedom-loving shareholders who believe in the poverty-eradicating and innovation-spurring powers of capitalism!
Frequently asked questions
- Does this require any changes to my investments?
- No, iconik simply helps you vote your shareholder ballots.
- What brokerages does this work with?
- It works with every brokerage, regardless of where shares are held, as long as you are able to receive email notices of shareholder elections.
- How does this affect my voting rights?
- You retain your voting rights. By using this service, you are giving iconik the limited right to vote your shares to match your values and preferences. You can override these votes or discontinue the service at any time.
Notice regarding Texas S.B. 2337
iconik does not independently issue voting recommendations. All voting choices are generated by applying each client's self-authored policy rules to public meeting data. Where client policies include non-financial factors or factors considered non-financial under Texas S.B. 2337, recommendations may reflect those values and not solely the financial interests of the users who adopted them.
For more information, including how your voting policy is implemented, please log in to your iconik account.