News
July / 07.2023
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- Corporate Governance
04.07.2023The Ethos Foundation has decided to support the Lausanne-based legal start-up LegalPass in its legal action against the exchange ratio set in the context of the acquisition of Credit Suisse by UBS.
June / 06.2023
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- Events
29.06.2023On Thursday, Ethos unveiled a new methodology for assessing global warming caused by the activities of listed companies. The methodology also aims to measure the credibility of companies' climate transition plans and the risks that climate change poses to their activities. The "Ethos climate transition rat…
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- Events
13.06.2023The 2023 General Meetings of the Ethos Foundation and Ethos Services were held in Fribourg on Tuesday 13 June. All items on the agenda were approved. The current members of the Foundation board of Ethos and the board of directors of Ethos Services were all re-elected.
May / 05.2023
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- General meetings
19.05.2023Submitted by a coalition of international investors with the support of the Ethos Foundation, the shareholder resolution calls for greater transparency from the Zug-based company, in particular with regard to the compatibility of its production and investments in coal with a global warming limit of 1.5°C.…
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- General meetings
10.05.2023The proxy cards for the 2023 general meetings of Aevis and Swatch Group did not offer shareholders the possibility to delegate their voting rights, which the Ethos Foundation regrets as it makes it more difficult to exercise this fundamental shareholder right. The procedure for exercising such an option wa…
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- General meetings
04.05.2023Ethos considers that Holcim's climate report has sufficiently improved to be approved this year. The company has taken into account the main criticisms expressed by Ethos in last year’s vote. Ethos will re-evaluate its position next year based on the company's progress on climate issues. However, Ethos rec…
April / 04.2023
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- General meetings
20.04.2023Ethos regrets the lack of information from Nestlé concerning the Buitoni pizza scandal which led to the death of two people in France in 2022. Ethos has taken due note of the agreement between Nestlé and the families of the victims announced on 17 April but considers that the information contained in the a…
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- General meetings
04.04.2023The CEO of the Ethos Foundation will be speaking this Tuesday morning at the last general meeting of Credit Suisse. In particular, he will call for full disclosure of the responsibility of the bank's current and former executives.