The protests, organized by We
Divest, came while TI-CREF
In the past, state pension funds have been required to
divest from South Africa in the 1980s and from the Sudan in a bill that took effect this year.
A practitioner can fire some clients and
divest others; it is just harder to explain to the fired clients why they were in that group.
If the church simply
divests, nothing positive has happened.
To mitigate the potential for adverse effects on competition in five banking markets, BB&T has committed to
divest to an out-of-market commercial banking organization branches that control sufficient deposits to make the proposal consistent with Board precedent and within the thresholds in the DOJ Guidelines.
The analysis of cumulative abnormal returns of matched pairs of sell-offs indicates that credit downgrades and transaction price disclosure affect the shareholders' wealth of firms that buy
divested assets and of firms that
divest.
The group has also started to
divest its other non-healthcare company, MOF Technologies Ltd, and is discontinuing support for certain projects and companies, including Morphodyne SA, Qlida Diagnostics, Inc.
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), commercial banks in Europe are expected to
divest more non-core loans in 2015.
The move followed a campaign of more than a year by affected Palestinian villages of Bil'in and Jayyous and by Norwegian, Palestinian, Israeli, and international activist groups, including Adalah-NY, calling on the Norwegian government to
divest from Africa Israel.
The campaign to
divest from Darfur is being organized by a number of local groups, including Jewish World Watch, a coalition of more than 50 synagogues started by Rabbi Harold Schulweis of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino.
Danish telecomms operator TDC A/S said on Thursday (16 December) that its German subsidiary Talkline Management & Finance Holding GmbH had concluded an agreement to
divest its value added services provider Talkline ID to the German company Freenet.
