Real-world change
Nonprofits use iconik to empower investors to easily vote their shares in a mission-aligned way.
Partner Highlight
As You Sow is the nation’s leading shareholder advocacy nonprofit, with a 30-year track record promoting environmental and social corporate responsibility and advancing values-aligned investing. Its issue areas include climate change, ocean plastics, pesticides, racial justice, workplace diversity, and executive compensation.
“If we’re going to advance positive change, we need a lot more investors to vote for resolutions on climate change, the environment, and political activity. That’s why Third Act is partnering with iconik to make it much easier to vote your shares to align with your values.”
“The iconik platform allows average investors voice, accessibility, and agency for the first time ever.”
“This new technology is fully democratizing the public markets and there’s no going back.”
For the first time ever, all fund shareholders have direct control of how all of their shares are voted specific to their personal value sets.
iconik’s VoteThru™ technology enables ONEFUND managers to vote proportionally to reflect the preferences of their investors on the full range of governance, social, and environmental issues. ONEFUND investors create their own personalized voting profiles or choose five preset options that span the ideological spectrum. iconik uses each investor’s voting profile (and percentage ownership of the fund) to calculate voting data that fund managers can use to easily implement pro-rata voting.
“Through this partnership with iconik, our INDEX investors have access to breakthrough technology designed to flip control back to them,” said ONEFUND Chief Executive Officer Mike Willis. “Rather than rifling through hundreds of ballots, they can set up their VoteThru profile in minutes, and be heard on the issues that matter to them.”
Impact Investing Leader Gains Efficiencies through iconik Technology
Known for its robust proxy voting, Green Alpha Investments is reaping dividends in time saved by using iconik’s vote automation and reporting features. The firm also offers iconik’s VoteForge platform to some of its separately managed accounts. Green Alpha Investments developed its proprietary Next EconomyTM investment approach in 2007 and has been managing sustainable, fossil fuel-free, impact-oriented investment strategies since 2008.
“Not every one of our clients has the same vision for how they want to see the economy of tomorrow unfolding,” explains Jeremy Deems, Co-Founder and CFO, Green Alpha Investments. “The iconik platform facilitates the conversation with clients about their values and priorities. Customized reporting expands our ability to show clients how their investments are making a difference in a more streamlined way than we could show previously.”
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.