Annaly Capital Management, Inc.

Corporate Bias Rating

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Risk Level:

Medium Risk

Summary:

Annaly Capital Management often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Annaly Capital Management occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

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Corporate Weaponization

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Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

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Annaly Capital Management integrates ESG into its business practices. “We believe that thoughtful integration of ESG priorities into our overall strategy allows us to have a positive impact and create durable value for all of our stakeholders” (1). However, the company has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (2).

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Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

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N/A

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Annaly Capital Management does not publish charitable giving guidelines.

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Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

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Annaly Capital Management does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (1). The company provides unconscious bias training for all managers and employs a Head of Inclusion (2).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

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Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Annaly Capital Management’s CEO, David L. Finkelstein, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace (1)(2). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using its reputation to advance ideological causes or policies (3).

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Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Annaly Capital Management has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).

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Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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Annaly Capital Management has not used its PAC donations and has not reported on its lobbying (1)(2)(3).

Board Bias

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1792 Exchange has not yet compiled data about the board of directors or political contributions of leadership for this company.