Resource Library

Investors for Affordable Cities: An online forum on the financialization of housing

This webinar was an opportunity for investors to learn about how the financialization of housing is unfolding in Canadian cities, consider why housing affordability is an issue for investors and discuss what investors can do to begin addressing concerns regarding housing affordability in their portfolios.

Investors for Affordable Cities: Responsible investment and affordable rental housing in Canada

As the housing crisis deepens, the growing presence of institutional investors in the rental real estate market – a phenomena often referred to as the financialization of housing – is coming under scrutiny. Housing affordability is an issue that investors must address in their portfolios.

SHARE 2020 Annual Report

2020 marked SHARE’s twentieth anniversary. This past year, we rose to the challenge, mobilizing our network of institutional investors in support of a just recovery, building resilience, advancing racial justice and reconciliation and continuing our efforts to build a sustainable, inclusive and productive economy. Learn more in our Annual Report.

SHARE 2021 Engagement Snapshot

SHARE’s stewardship services help institutional investors become active owners by facilitating constructive shareholder dialogues with companies on key environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues.

Business and Reconciliation: An Update Exploring the Performance of Public Companies in Canada

This report reviews company disclosures using a broad set of indicators to measure progress in advancing reconciliation since the release of a benchmark report in 2017.

Joint Canadian investor letter to the Modernization Task Force

SHARE helped to convene a group of Canada’s largest pension investors and asset management firms to present proposals to Ontario’s Capital Markets Modernization Task Force, working together to encourage Canadian regulators to take up improved environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure requirements, improve corporate diversity, and address climate change.

Climate Lobbying in the Canadian Energy Sector: Investor Benchmark of Oversight and Disclosure

This report analyzes 22 companies listed in the S&P/TSX Capped Energy Index (TTEN) on their climate lobbying disclosure and found that all have participated in lobbying activities, while none have disclosed their overall spending.

Energy and Mining Investment: Assessing Accountability for Indigenous Rights in Complex Investment Chains

This investor brief outlines the types of indirect exposure to Indigenous rights concerns as well as key questions investors can ask about due diligence for independently-managed operations.

Letter to US SEC about Rule 14a-8

SHARE CEO Kevin Thomas comments on the rules proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on November 5th, 2019. SHARE believes both proposals are arbitrary, costly, counter-productive and detrimental to the workings of capital markets and the private ordering of shareholder and management relationships.

Annual Report 2019

Making an Impact, Together

Since 2000, the Shareholder Association for Research and Education (SHARE) has built a community of values-driven investors who are committed to amplifying their voices in support of a sustainable, inclusive and productive economy.

Canada’s oil sands tailings reclamation: an unfunded liability?

This investor brief examines how reclamation liabilities have the potential to impact expenditures, the value of assets, access to capital, and overall financial condition of companies.

2020 Shareholder Engagement Snapshot

SHARE’s engagement service helps institutional investors become active owners by facilitating constructive shareholder dialogues with companies on key environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues.