Responsible Investors Trouble With Warren Buffett on ESG Issues

Warren Buffett has this year held back environmental and social proposals at Berkshire Hathaway due to his increased political rights. This article, by the Spanish news publication Social Investor, explores the dilemma that this poses for investors with an ESG profile, who have seen Buffett reject the initiatives of third-party shareholders at the 2021 shareholders' meeting, who demanded more transparency on environmental and social issues.

In this context, Borja Miranda, Managing Director at Morrow Sodali, explains what the 'withhold' voting typology consists of –which does not exist in Spain– and which is applied in different ways in the United States.

Click here to read the article in full (in Spanish only).