Coho Partners
Corporate Bias Rating
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Coho Partners does not yield to political activism in shaping corporate governance, preventing initiatives that potentially alienate consumers, divide employees, and harm shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Coho Partners does not embrace corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues. This approach protects free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.
View Full Corporate Bias Ratings ReportHas canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.
Coho Partners is a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment, incorporating ESG issues into investment analysis, decision-making, and other business practices (1)(2). However, the company has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (3).
Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.
Coho Partners does not publish charitable giving guidelines (1).
Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.
Coho Partners requires its employees to take unconscious bias and DEI training (1). Coho Partners appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its recruitment. From its 2024 Impact Report: “Recruitment firms are vetted for their diversity sources…prior to commencing a search, and diversity in the candidate pool is communicated as an important criterion in the search process” (2). Coho Partners does not publish a nondiscrimination policy (3)(4).
Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Coho Partners supports ESG within its business practices. From its Impact Report: “We are staunch advocates of integrating material and financially relevant ESG metrics in business practices as a long–term strategy” (1). Coho Partners supports DEI within its business practices, employing a DEI Committee, and hosting a DEI workshop for its employees. Coho Partners supports ESG within its business practices. From its ESG Insights: “Key pillars of our ESG investment strategy include engagement and active proxy voting to drive positive and meaningful change in corporate behavior…we seek increasing accountability for corporate results, including performance on sustainability, and improving board diversity” (2). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of Coho Partners using its reputation to advance ideological causes or policies (3).
Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
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