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How retirement funds impact society

Companies like Amazon and Comcast offer employees a corporate retirement plan, to help them save for the future.

Asset managers like Vanguard and BlackRock take that money and invest it in the stock market via mutual funds.

The money is invested in fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil, arms manufacturers like Raytheon, and private prison operators like CoreCivic.

How unsustainable funds threaten your retirement

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We rate retirement plans and mutual funds on seven environmental and social sustainability issues, from deforestation to gender equality. Read more

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The World Health Organization describes tobacco as the most devastating, but preventable, epidemic of our time. Every day, more than 2,000 young Americans become daily smokers.
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Coal, oil, and gas release carbon pollution that accelerates the climate emergency. Rising temperatures will contribute to fires, floods, deadly heatwaves, and other environmental disasters.
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Investor-owned companies are profiting from exploitative prison labor, immigration jails, and other economic systems of oppression and exploitation.
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Clearing rain forests for cattle grazing or palm oil production contributes to the climate crisis and threatens the rights of Indigenous peoples, traditional landowners, and local communities.
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Through the global weapons trade, some arms manufacturers supply military goods to states at risk of using weapons for oppression or aggression.
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Collecting data and scoring companies on gender equality is the first step towards sustainable change.
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Over 90% of the country supports expanding background checks to all gun sales and the majority supports increased safety regulation, but many of these same people are invested their savings in firearm manufacturers and don’t even know it.
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The World Health Organization describes tobacco as the most devastating, but preventable, epidemic of our time. Every day, more than 2,000 young Americans become daily smokers.
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Coal, oil, and gas release carbon pollution that accelerates the climate emergency. Rising temperatures will contribute to fires, floods, deadly heatwaves, and other environmental disasters.
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Your retirement plan may be fueling the climate crisis. But it doesn't have to.

Select a company retirement plan

How retirement funds impact society

Companies like Amazon and Comcast offer employees a corporate retirement plan, to help them save for the future.

Asset managers like Vanguard and BlackRock take that money and invest it in the stock market via mutual funds.

The money is invested in fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil, arms manufacturers like Raytheon, and private prison operators like CoreCivic.

How unsustainable funds threaten your retirement

Environmental and social impacts

Financial risks of unsustainable investments

Learn about the issues

The World Health Organization describes tobacco as the most devastating, but preventable, epidemic of our time. Every day, more than 2,000 young Americans become daily smokers.

Learn about the issues

Coal, oil, and gas release carbon pollution that accelerates the climate emergency. Rising temperatures will contribute to fires, floods, deadly heatwaves, and other environmental disasters.

Learn about the issues

Investor-owned companies are profiting from exploitative prison labor, immigration jails, and other economic systems of oppression and exploitation.

Learn about the issues

Clearing rain forests for cattle grazing or palm oil production contributes to the climate crisis and threatens the rights of Indigenous peoples, traditional landowners, and local communities.

Learn about the issues

Through the global weapons trade, some arms manufacturers supply military goods to states at risk of using weapons for oppression or aggression.

Learn about the issues

Collecting data and scoring companies on gender equality is the first step towards sustainable change.

Learn about the issues

Over 90% of the country supports expanding background checks to all gun sales and the majority supports increased safety regulation, but many of these same people are invested their savings in firearm manufacturers and don’t even know it.

Learn about the issues

The World Health Organization describes tobacco as the most devastating, but preventable, epidemic of our time. Every day, more than 2,000 young Americans become daily smokers.

Learn about the issues

Coal, oil, and gas release carbon pollution that accelerates the climate emergency. Rising temperatures will contribute to fires, floods, deadly heatwaves, and other environmental disasters.

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Disclaimer: As You Sow is not an investment adviser

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How retirement funds impact society

Companies like Amazon and Comcast offer employees a corporate retirement plan, to help them save for the future.

Asset managers like Vanguard and BlackRock take that money and invest it in the stock market via mutual funds.

The money is invested in fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil, arms manufacturers like Raytheon, and private prison operators like CoreCivic.

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How unsustainable funds threaten your retirement

Environmental and social impacts

Financial risks of unsustainable investments

Learn about the issues

The World Health Organization describes tobacco as the most devastating, but preventable, epidemic of our time. Every day, more than 2,000 young Americans become daily smokers.

Learn about the issues

Coal, oil, and gas release carbon pollution that accelerates the climate emergency. Rising temperatures will contribute to fires, floods, deadly heatwaves, and other environmental disasters.

Learn about the issues

Investor-owned companies are profiting from exploitative prison labor, immigration jails, and other economic systems of oppression and exploitation.

Learn about the issues

Clearing rain forests for cattle grazing or palm oil production contributes to the climate crisis and threatens the rights of Indigenous peoples, traditional landowners, and local communities.

Learn about the issues

Through the global weapons trade, some arms manufacturers supply military goods to states at risk of using weapons for oppression or aggression.

Learn about the issues

Collecting data and scoring companies on gender equality is the first step towards sustainable change.

Learn about the issues

Over 90% of the country supports expanding background checks to all gun sales and the majority supports increased safety regulation, but many of these same people are invested their savings in firearm manufacturers and don’t even know it.

Learn about the issues

The World Health Organization describes tobacco as the most devastating, but preventable, epidemic of our time. Every day, more than 2,000 young Americans become daily smokers.

Learn about the issues

Coal, oil, and gas release carbon pollution that accelerates the climate emergency. Rising temperatures will contribute to fires, floods, deadly heatwaves, and other environmental disasters.

Action center

Disclaimer: As You Sow is not an investment adviser