Ark Investments - 1792 Exchange

Corporate Bias Rating

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Risk Level:

Medium Risk

Summary:

Ark Investments is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company elevates merit, excellence, and integrity ahead of race and identity-based policies. Ark Investments 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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Ark Investments integrates ESG into its business practices, tying ESG into its investment practices. “All members of ARK’s research and investment team are involved in the effort of integrating ESG issues into the investment process” (1). However, the company has not 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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Ark Investments does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs. Its charitable giving focus areas are “promoting good health and wellbeing, quality education, and gender equality” (1).

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

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Ark Investments does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (1).

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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Ark Investments has not supported ideological causes or policies (1).

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

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Ark Investments partners with The Equal Justice Initiative and the New York Urban League (1). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using its corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (2).

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

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N/A

Rationale

Ark Investments does not operate a PAC or engage in lobbying at this time (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.