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If you own stock, you have the right and power to vote on important environmental, social, and governance issues.
Your shares can help push corporations to take important steps to protect people and the planet.

Use Your Shares To Take A Stand

Third Act is partnering with iconik to create a unique shareholder voting profile to support shareholder votes on key Third Act initiatives below. Individuals can have their shares automatically voted to match Third Act’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 influence companies’ policies and practices on climate change, human rights, and more.

Climate Finance

Includes voting rules designed to restrict and reduce the financing of fossil fuel companies and new coal, oil and gas infrastructure, such as mines, pipelines and terminals. Supports setting absolute emission targets, and promoting investments in climate solutions, such as renewable energy infrastructure.

Indigenous Rights

Includes voting rules designed to align with and be held accountable to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), as laid out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), especially pertaining to new resource and fossil fuel extraction projects.

Primary Forests

Includes voting rules designed to promote truly sustainable forest management, including protection for primary forests and upholding Indigenous-led land use visions. Highlights include: refraining from sourcing forest-based products from primary and old-growth forests, promoting ecosystem integrity and biodiversity, and supporting proposals to disrupt supply chains and commodities that cause forest destruction.

Oil & Gas

Includes voting rules designed to ensure fossil fuel companies have legitimate, science based and verified transition plans to halve absolute Scope 1-3 emissions by 2030. Includes rules to regularly vote against directors of fossil fuel companies.

Political Activity

Includes voting rules designed to increase transparency about how companies pursue their interests through political processes, such as lobbying or supporting campaigns. Supports proposals to report on direct and indirect lobbying, political advocacy, and charitable giving activities, and report on reputational risk due to mismatch or conflict between a company’s values and policies and a company’s political or charitable activities.

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 Third Act’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 Third Act shareholder voting profile is designed to address key environmental, and social risks faced by public companies. These risks can negatively impact shareholder value.


How does it impact shareholder value?

Companies that disregard social and environmental concerns may be more susceptible to fines, boycotts, regulation, litigation, and reputational risk. They may find it difficult to acquire financing at competitive rates, and attract and retain a talented workforce. As they fall further behind, it may become increasingly difficult and expensive to catch up, hampering their ability to thrive economically.

These companies also contribute to systemic risk. Systemic risk means that the action of some corporations may negatively affect other corporations. Climate change is a clear example of this: actions of oil and gas companies are linked to extreme weather events, wreaking havoc on supply chains, and damaging crops and infrastructure. Companies depending on these supply chains are forced to take on new costs, translating into additional risk for investors. Companies may face higher financial risks from investments in fossil fuels that may become stranded assets, is another example.

For many people, risks to investments aren’t the most important issue, but rather the risk to the environment itself. Faced with an existential climate crisis, many people are using all means at our disposal - including voting rights as shareholders - to take action to limit global warming and address key social justice issues.

We are happy to have you join the movement of empowered shareholders!

Please note: Third Act is a non-profit educational, organizing, and advocacy organization with a mission to safeguard our democracy and protect our climate. We are not investment advisors; we do not provide financial, advisory, or brokerage services; and are legally prohibited from providing investment or financial advice. The information and tool provided on this website is to help facilitate investors voting their shares. These are individual investor decisions. As described in the FAQs, voting of shares can be changed (if the voting deadline has not passed) and individual voting profiles and preferences can be customized (as part of a paid plan).

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.

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