Causeway Capital Management
Corporate Bias Rating
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Causeway Capital Management 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. Causeway 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.
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.
Causeway Capital Management integrates ESG into its business practices. From its ESG policy: “Our fundamental value equity process and our quantitative equity process each has its own investment approach to integrate ESG considerations into the research and decision-making process” (1). The company is a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment, incorporating ESG issues into investment analysis, decision-making, and other business practices (2)(3). However, the Causeway Capital has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (4).
Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.
Causeway Capital Management does not publish charitable giving guidelines (1).
Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.
Causeway Capital Management does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (1).
Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Causeway Capital Management states that it is “seeking to raise our colleagues’ awareness of unconscious racial, gender, and cultural biases”, though it does not appear to host DEI-based training initiatives (1). Causeway Capital supports DEI within its business practices, hosting a DEI Committee (2). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its Sustainability Policy: “Causeway believes that financially material sustainability factors (i.e., environmental, social, and corporate governance, or ESG, factors that have pecuniary implications) are a relevant input into investment analysis where applicable” (3). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using its reputation to advance ideological causes or policies (4).
Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Causeway Capital Management has not used its corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).
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