Champlain Investment Partners

Vermont
Diversified Financials

Corprate Bias Ratings

Risk Level:

Rating - Caution
Medium Risk

Champlain Investment Partners does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees but has not publicly terminated business relationships based on views or beliefs. Champlain Investment Partners integrates ESG into all of its business practices and supports DEI within its business practices, including funding LGBTQ-specific scholarships. However, it does not discriminate against religious organizations in its charitable giving. For these reasons, Champlain Investment Partners receives a Medium Risk rating.

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Risk Level
Rationale
Corporate Weaponization
Criteria

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

Risk Level
Rationale

Champlain Investment Partners has not publicly terminated business relationships due to religious beliefs or political views. Champlain Investment Partners integrates ESG into all of its business practices. ESG exists in “all aspects of [its] company [and] integrated in the due diligence inherent to [its] investment process” (1).

Criteria

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

Risk Level
Rationale

Champlain Investment Partners does not discriminate against religious organizations in its charitable giving. It “offers a generous firm matching policy for employees to contribute to any non-profit organization that is important to them personally and strongly encourages participation” (1)(2).

Criteria

Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

Risk Level
Rationale

Champlain Investment Partners does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level
Rationale

Champlain Investment Partners supports DEI within its business practices (1).

Criteria

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

Risk Level
Rationale

Champlain Investment Partners funds a scholarship for the University of Vermont Grossman School of Business that gives scholarships to specific groups, including LGBTQ individuals (1). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of Champlain Investment Partners using its corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (2).

Criteria

Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level
N/A
Rationale

Champlain Investment Partners does not operate a PAC or engage in lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).

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October 5, 2023

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