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Warren Buffett Faces Impatient Investors as Berkshire Hathaway Returns Decline<blockquote>伯克希尔哈撒韦公司回报下降，沃伦·巴菲特面临不耐烦的投资者</blockquote>

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Professional money managers are turning up the heat on Warren Buffett’sBerkshire Hathaway Inc.BRK.B-0.95%. California Public Employees’ Retirement System and Neuberger Berman have demanded that the Omaha, Neb., conglomerate bring in new directors and provide more disclosures on climate risks and executive. While many of the complaints aren’t new and none of the shareholder proposals are","content":"Institutional shareholders are pressing for change on climate and governance at the Omaha, Neb., conglomerate<blockquote>内布拉斯加州奥马哈企业集团的机构股东正在敦促改变气候和治理</blockquote>Professional money managers are turning up the heat on Warren Buffett’sBerkshire Hathaway&nbsp;Inc.BRK.B -0.95%<blockquote>专业基金经理正在加大对沃伦-巴菲特的热度伯克希尔哈撒韦公司Inc.BRK.B -0.95%</blockquote>California Public Employees’ Retirement System and Neuberger Berman have demanded that the Omaha, Neb., conglomerate bring in new directors and provide more disclosures on climate risks and executive<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1dd969e4b237144cd02112f41464d169\" tg-width=\"824\" tg-height=\"1396\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><blockquote>加州公共雇员退休系统（California Public Employees' Retirement System）和纽伯格-伯曼（Neuberger Berman）要求这家位于内布拉斯加州奥马哈的企业集团引入新董事，并就气候风险和高管提供更多信息。</blockquote>Leading up to Berkshire’s annual meeting on Saturday, proxy advisers Glass Lewis &amp; Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. have recommended that investors withhold their votes for board members.<blockquote>在伯克希尔周六召开年会之前，代理顾问格拉斯-刘易斯公司（Glass Lewis &amp; Co.）和机构股东服务公司（Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.</blockquote>While many of the complaints aren’t new and none of the shareholder proposals are likely to pass, Berkshire’s lackluster returns in recent years have made it more vulnerable to criticism amid a growing wave of investor interest in corporate sustainability issues.<blockquote>虽然许多投诉并不新鲜，股东提案也不太可能获得通过，但伯克希尔近年来惨淡的回报使其更容易受到批评，因为投资者对企业可持续发展问题的兴趣日益浓厚。</blockquote>The shareholder movement to press companies on climate change, social progress and governance continues to gain steam in the U.S., emerging asa key selling point for money managers in their efforts to keep client money.<blockquote>在美国，股东就气候变化、社会进步和治理向公司施压的运动继续势头强劲，出现了资金经理努力保留客户资金的一个关键卖点.</blockquote>Under Mr. Buffett’s leadership,the firm boasts 20% compounded annualized gains from 1965 to 2020, outperforming the S&amp;P 500’s 10.2% gains including dividends during the period. Berkshire’s total returns over the past three- and five-year periods were 12% and 14%, respectively, compared with the index’s 19% and 18%.<blockquote>在巴菲特先生的领导下，该公司拥有 1965 年至 2020 年 20% 的复合年化收益超过了标普500在此期间包括股息在内的 10.2% 的涨幅。伯克希尔过去三年和五年的总回报率分别为 12% 和 14%，而该指数的总回报率分别为 19% 和 18%。</blockquote>“Berkshire has gotten a pass in part because of its historically strong financial performance,” said Simiso Nzima, head of corporate governance at Calpers.<blockquote>“Calpers 公司治理主管 Simiso Nzima 说：”伯克希尔之所以能获得通行证，部分原因是其历来强劲的财务业绩。</blockquote>Berkshire has continued to stress its continued focus on the long game. Mr. Buffett, who is chief executive and chairman of the company, built upa diverse portfolio of mostly U.S. businesses and investments meant to perform over decades, not to compete with a volatile market buoyed by booming tech stocks.<blockquote>伯克希尔继续强调其将继续专注于长期游戏。本公司首席执行官兼主席巴菲特先生主要由美国企业和投资组成的多元化投资组合，旨在持续数十年，而不是与蓬勃发展的科技股提振的动荡市场竞争。</blockquote>Calpers, the nation’s largest public-pension fund with $444 billion in assets, co-sponsored a shareholder proposal imploring Berkshire to provide more disclosures on climate-related risks and opportunities.<blockquote>Calpers 是美国最大的公共养老基金，拥有 4440 亿美元的资产，它共同发起了一项股东提案，恳求伯克希尔提供更多有关气候相关风险和机遇的信息。</blockquote>The pension fund is also withholding its votes to re-elect members of the board’s audit and governance committees on grounds of failing to meet shareholder demands over climate-risk disclosures. It said it was concerned that the board lacks new members, doesn’t engage with shareholders and isn’t letting investors vote on executive pay plans.<blockquote>养老基金还以未能满足股东在气候风险披露方面的要求为由，对董事会审计和治理委员会成员的连任投了弃权票。该公司表示，它担心董事会缺乏新成员，不与股东互动，也不让投资者对高管薪酬计划进行投票。</blockquote>“If you don’t refresh the board, you don’t have a next generation of directors able to learn from the long-serving directors before they leave the board,” Mr. Nzima said.<blockquote>“恩齐马先生说：”如果不更新董事会，下一代董事就无法在长期任职的董事离开董事会之前向他们学习。</blockquote>Berkshire declined to comment ahead of the company’s Saturday meeting.<blockquote>伯克希尔拒绝在公司周六会议前发表评论。</blockquote>Neuberger, a privately held money manager with more than $429 billion in assets, also said it would vote for several shareholder-led proposals related to environmental, social and corporate-governance issues, often abbreviated as ESG.<blockquote>拥有超过 4,290 亿美元资产的私人基金管理公司 Neuberger 还表示，将投票支持几项由股东主导的与环境、社会和公司治理问题（通常缩写为 ESG）相关的提案。</blockquote>“One would think that if companies have a responsibility to look out for the environment or deliver good on social issues and governance, that Berkshire might be a leader in these areas,” said Michelle Giordano, a Neuberger analyst who follows the company. “But it doesn’t seem like they are.”<blockquote>“人们可能会认为，如果公司有责任关注环境或在社会问题和治理方面做好工作，那么伯克希尔可能会成为这些领域的领导者，”跟踪伯克希尔的纽伯格分析师米歇尔-乔尔达诺（Michelle Giordano）说。“但他们似乎不是。”</blockquote>Berkshire said in its annual proxy statement that while it agreed companies had a responsibility to manage&nbsp;climate risks, it preferred to let its various operating units commit to their own environmental policies. Mandates from a small corporate office, the company wrote, would infringe upon the autonomy that has helped those businesses thrive under Berkshire’s ownership. Berkshire Hathaway Energy, for instance, already producesa sustainability report.<blockquote>伯克希尔在其年度委托书中表示，虽然它同意公司有责任管理气候风险，但它更愿意让其各个运营单位致力于自己的环境政策。该公司写道，小型公司办公室的授权将侵犯伯克希尔旗下帮助这些企业蓬勃发展的自主权。例如，伯克希尔哈撒韦能源公司已经生产可持续发展报告.</blockquote>Calpers has also pledged to support a proposal requiring the company to report its efforts to diversify its staff.<blockquote>Calpers 还承诺支持一项提案，要求该公司报告其员工多元化的努力。</blockquote>Berkshire said the diversity-report proposal improperly suggests that “there is a standardized technique for each of Berkshire’s more than 60 operating businesses to address diversity, equity and inclusion.”<blockquote>伯克希尔表示，多元化报告提案不恰当地暗示 “伯克希尔 60 多家运营业务都有一种标准化技术来解决多元化、公平和包容性问题”。</blockquote>“It would be unreasonable to ask for uniform, quantitative reporting for the purposes of comparing such dissimilar operations in different geographic locations,” Berkshire wrote.<blockquote>“伯克希尔写道：”为了比较不同地理位置的此类不同业务，要求统一的定量报告是不合理的。</blockquote>Glass Lewis and ISS recommended shareholders vote for the ESG proposals and withhold votes for certain directors.<blockquote>Glass Lewis 和 ISS 建议股东投票支持 ESG 提案，并对某些董事弃权。</blockquote>“This year there’s a lot more attention given from mainstream investors on ESG issues,” said Courteney Keatinge, a senior director of ESG research at Glass Lewis.<blockquote>“Glass Lewis 公司 ESG 研究高级总监 Courteney Keatinge 说：”今年，主流投资者对 ESG 问题给予了更多关注。</blockquote>Another factor is at play: Berkshire shares are slowly changing hands.<blockquote>另一个因素在起作用：伯克希尔的股票正在慢慢易手。</blockquote>Mr. Buffett’s longstanding plan to shrink his stake in the company over time has shifted more Berkshire shares to big institutional investors, said Lawrence Cunningham, a law professor at George Washington University who has written extensively about the company.<blockquote>乔治-华盛顿大学（George Washington University）法学教授劳伦斯-坎宁安（Lawrence Cunningham）曾撰写过大量关于伯克希尔公司的文章，他说，巴菲特先生长期以来一直计划随着时间的推移减少他在伯克希尔公司的股份，这使得更多的伯克希尔公司股票流向了大型机构投资者。</blockquote>About 70% of Berkshire’s shares are owned by individuals, many of whom are longtime holders loyal to Mr. Buffett, Mr. Cunningham said. And many don’t care whether Berkshire lacks a corporate sustainability report or an investor-relations team at the ready to answer their questions.<blockquote>坎宁安先生说，伯克希尔约 70% 的股份由个人持有，其中许多人是巴菲特先生的长期忠实持有者。许多人并不关心伯克希尔是否缺乏企业可持续发展报告或随时回答他们问题的投资者关系团队。</blockquote>“Berkshire’s unusual and valued family of individual shareholders may add to your understanding of our reluctance to court Wall Street analysts and institutional investors,” Mr. Buffett wrote in his most recent letter to shareholders. “We already have the investors we want and don’t think that they, on balance, would be upgraded by replacements.”<blockquote>“巴菲特先生在最近一封致股东的信中写道：”伯克希尔不同寻常且有价值的个人股东家族可能会让你们更加理解我们不愿讨好华尔街分析师和机构投资者的原因。“我们已经有了我们想要的投资者，我认为总的来说，他们不会通过替代者来升级。”</blockquote>The gradual uptick in institutional ownership, though, might already be empowering professional managers to press Berkshire on governance matters.&nbsp;When Mr. Buffett and his estate sell off his remaining shares, it is likely those money managers will hold an even bigger stake in the company, Mr. Cunningham said.<blockquote>不过，机构所有权的逐渐增加，可能已经让职业经理人有能力在治理问题上向伯克希尔施压。坎宁安说，当巴菲特和他的遗产出售他剩余的股份时，这些资金经理可能会持有该公司更大的股份。</blockquote>“There will be a dawning of significant leadership and structural change, and these holders are preparing for that battle,” Mr. Cunningham said.<blockquote>“坎宁安先生说：”重大领导层和结构性变革即将到来，这些持有者正在为这场战斗做准备。</blockquote>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. have recommended that investors withhold their votes for board members.<blockquote>在伯克希尔周六召开年会之前，代理顾问格拉斯-刘易斯公司（Glass Lewis &amp; Co.）和机构股东服务公司（Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.</blockquote>While many of the complaints aren’t new and none of the shareholder proposals are likely to pass, Berkshire’s lackluster returns in recent years have made it more vulnerable to criticism amid a growing wave of investor interest in corporate sustainability issues.<blockquote>虽然许多投诉并不新鲜，股东提案也不太可能获得通过，但伯克希尔近年来惨淡的回报使其更容易受到批评，因为投资者对企业可持续发展问题的兴趣日益浓厚。</blockquote>The shareholder movement to press companies on climate change, social progress and governance continues to gain steam in the U.S., emerging asa key selling point for money managers in their efforts to keep client money.<blockquote>在美国，股东就气候变化、社会进步和治理向公司施压的运动继续势头强劲，出现了资金经理努力保留客户资金的一个关键卖点.</blockquote>Under Mr. Buffett’s leadership,the firm boasts 20% compounded annualized gains from 1965 to 2020, outperforming the S&amp;P 500’s 10.2% gains including dividends during the period. Berkshire’s total returns over the past three- and five-year periods were 12% and 14%, respectively, compared with the index’s 19% and 18%.<blockquote>在巴菲特先生的领导下，该公司拥有 1965 年至 2020 年 20% 的复合年化收益超过了标普500在此期间包括股息在内的 10.2% 的涨幅。伯克希尔过去三年和五年的总回报率分别为 12% 和 14%，而该指数的总回报率分别为 19% 和 18%。</blockquote>“Berkshire has gotten a pass in part because of its historically strong financial performance,” said Simiso Nzima, head of corporate governance at Calpers.<blockquote>“Calpers 公司治理主管 Simiso Nzima 说：”伯克希尔之所以能获得通行证，部分原因是其历来强劲的财务业绩。</blockquote>Berkshire has continued to stress its continued focus on the long game. Mr. Buffett, who is chief executive and chairman of the company, built upa diverse portfolio of mostly U.S. businesses and investments meant to perform over decades, not to compete with a volatile market buoyed by booming tech stocks.<blockquote>伯克希尔继续强调其将继续专注于长期游戏。本公司首席执行官兼主席巴菲特先生主要由美国企业和投资组成的多元化投资组合，旨在持续数十年，而不是与蓬勃发展的科技股提振的动荡市场竞争。</blockquote>Calpers, the nation’s largest public-pension fund with $444 billion in assets, co-sponsored a shareholder proposal imploring Berkshire to provide more disclosures on climate-related risks and opportunities.<blockquote>Calpers 是美国最大的公共养老基金，拥有 4440 亿美元的资产，它共同发起了一项股东提案，恳求伯克希尔提供更多有关气候相关风险和机遇的信息。</blockquote>The pension fund is also withholding its votes to re-elect members of the board’s audit and governance committees on grounds of failing to meet shareholder demands over climate-risk disclosures. It said it was concerned that the board lacks new members, doesn’t engage with shareholders and isn’t letting investors vote on executive pay plans.<blockquote>养老基金还以未能满足股东在气候风险披露方面的要求为由，对董事会审计和治理委员会成员的连任投了弃权票。该公司表示，它担心董事会缺乏新成员，不与股东互动，也不让投资者对高管薪酬计划进行投票。</blockquote>“If you don’t refresh the board, you don’t have a next generation of directors able to learn from the long-serving directors before they leave the board,” Mr. Nzima said.<blockquote>“恩齐马先生说：”如果不更新董事会，下一代董事就无法在长期任职的董事离开董事会之前向他们学习。</blockquote>Berkshire declined to comment ahead of the company’s Saturday meeting.<blockquote>伯克希尔拒绝在公司周六会议前发表评论。</blockquote>Neuberger, a privately held money manager with more than $429 billion in assets, also said it would vote for several shareholder-led proposals related to environmental, social and corporate-governance issues, often abbreviated as ESG.<blockquote>拥有超过 4,290 亿美元资产的私人基金管理公司 Neuberger 还表示，将投票支持几项由股东主导的与环境、社会和公司治理问题（通常缩写为 ESG）相关的提案。</blockquote>“One would think that if companies have a responsibility to look out for the environment or deliver good on social issues and governance, that Berkshire might be a leader in these areas,” said Michelle Giordano, a Neuberger analyst who follows the company. “But it doesn’t seem like they are.”<blockquote>“人们可能会认为，如果公司有责任关注环境或在社会问题和治理方面做好工作，那么伯克希尔可能会成为这些领域的领导者，”跟踪伯克希尔的纽伯格分析师米歇尔-乔尔达诺（Michelle Giordano）说。“但他们似乎不是。”</blockquote>Berkshire said in its annual proxy statement that while it agreed companies had a responsibility to manage&nbsp;climate risks, it preferred to let its various operating units commit to their own environmental policies. Mandates from a small corporate office, the company wrote, would infringe upon the autonomy that has helped those businesses thrive under Berkshire’s ownership. Berkshire Hathaway Energy, for instance, already producesa sustainability report.<blockquote>伯克希尔在其年度委托书中表示，虽然它同意公司有责任管理气候风险，但它更愿意让其各个运营单位致力于自己的环境政策。该公司写道，小型公司办公室的授权将侵犯伯克希尔旗下帮助这些企业蓬勃发展的自主权。例如，伯克希尔哈撒韦能源公司已经生产可持续发展报告.</blockquote>Calpers has also pledged to support a proposal requiring the company to report its efforts to diversify its staff.<blockquote>Calpers 还承诺支持一项提案，要求该公司报告其员工多元化的努力。</blockquote>Berkshire said the diversity-report proposal improperly suggests that “there is a standardized technique for each of Berkshire’s more than 60 operating businesses to address diversity, equity and inclusion.”<blockquote>伯克希尔表示，多元化报告提案不恰当地暗示 “伯克希尔 60 多家运营业务都有一种标准化技术来解决多元化、公平和包容性问题”。</blockquote>“It would be unreasonable to ask for uniform, quantitative reporting for the purposes of comparing such dissimilar operations in different geographic locations,” Berkshire wrote.<blockquote>“伯克希尔写道：”为了比较不同地理位置的此类不同业务，要求统一的定量报告是不合理的。</blockquote>Glass Lewis and ISS recommended shareholders vote for the ESG proposals and withhold votes for certain directors.<blockquote>Glass Lewis 和 ISS 建议股东投票支持 ESG 提案，并对某些董事弃权。</blockquote>“This year there’s a lot more attention given from mainstream investors on ESG issues,” said Courteney Keatinge, a senior director of ESG research at Glass Lewis.<blockquote>“Glass Lewis 公司 ESG 研究高级总监 Courteney Keatinge 说：”今年，主流投资者对 ESG 问题给予了更多关注。</blockquote>Another factor is at play: Berkshire shares are slowly changing hands.<blockquote>另一个因素在起作用：伯克希尔的股票正在慢慢易手。</blockquote>Mr. Buffett’s longstanding plan to shrink his stake in the company over time has shifted more Berkshire shares to big institutional investors, said Lawrence Cunningham, a law professor at George Washington University who has written extensively about the company.<blockquote>乔治-华盛顿大学（George Washington University）法学教授劳伦斯-坎宁安（Lawrence Cunningham）曾撰写过大量关于伯克希尔公司的文章，他说，巴菲特先生长期以来一直计划随着时间的推移减少他在伯克希尔公司的股份，这使得更多的伯克希尔公司股票流向了大型机构投资者。</blockquote>About 70% of Berkshire’s shares are owned by individuals, many of whom are longtime holders loyal to Mr. Buffett, Mr. Cunningham said. And many don’t care whether Berkshire lacks a corporate sustainability report or an investor-relations team at the ready to answer their questions.<blockquote>坎宁安先生说，伯克希尔约 70% 的股份由个人持有，其中许多人是巴菲特先生的长期忠实持有者。许多人并不关心伯克希尔是否缺乏企业可持续发展报告或随时回答他们问题的投资者关系团队。</blockquote>“Berkshire’s unusual and valued family of individual shareholders may add to your understanding of our reluctance to court Wall Street analysts and institutional investors,” Mr. Buffett wrote in his most recent letter to shareholders. “We already have the investors we want and don’t think that they, on balance, would be upgraded by replacements.”<blockquote>“巴菲特先生在最近一封致股东的信中写道：”伯克希尔不同寻常且有价值的个人股东家族可能会让你们更加理解我们不愿讨好华尔街分析师和机构投资者的原因。“我们已经有了我们想要的投资者，我认为总的来说，他们不会通过替代者来升级。”</blockquote>The gradual uptick in institutional ownership, though, might already be empowering professional managers to press Berkshire on governance matters.&nbsp;When Mr. Buffett and his estate sell off his remaining shares, it is likely those money managers will hold an even bigger stake in the company, Mr. Cunningham said.<blockquote>不过，机构所有权的逐渐增加，可能已经让职业经理人有能力在治理问题上向伯克希尔施压。坎宁安说，当巴菲特和他的遗产出售他剩余的股份时，这些资金经理可能会持有该公司更大的股份。</blockquote>“There will be a dawning of significant leadership and structural change, and these holders are preparing for that battle,” Mr. Cunningham said.<blockquote>“坎宁安先生说：”重大领导层和结构性变革即将到来，这些持有者正在为这场战斗做准备。</blockquote>\n<div class=\"bt-text\">\n\n\n 来源：<a href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/warren-buffett-faces-impatient-investors-as-berkshire-hathaway-returns-decline-11619794480\">WSJ</a>\n为提升您的阅读体验，我们对本页面进行了排版优化\n\n\n</div>\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/daaa666333c3b9bf0b940ffed4c1c369","relate_stocks":{"BRK.B":"伯克希尔B"},"source_url":"https://www.wsj.com/articles/warren-buffett-faces-impatient-investors-as-berkshire-hathaway-returns-decline-11619794480","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1105099718","content_text":"Institutional shareholders are pressing for change on climate and governance at the Omaha, Neb., conglomerateProfessional money managers are turning up the heat on Warren Buffett’sBerkshire Hathaway Inc.BRK.B -0.95%California Public Employees’ Retirement System and Neuberger Berman have demanded that the Omaha, Neb., conglomerate bring in new directors and provide more disclosures on climate risks and executiveLeading up to Berkshire’s annual meeting on Saturday, proxy advisers Glass Lewis & Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. have recommended that investors withhold their votes for board members.While many of the complaints aren’t new and none of the shareholder proposals are likely to pass, Berkshire’s lackluster returns in recent years have made it more vulnerable to criticism amid a growing wave of investor interest in corporate sustainability issues.The shareholder movement to press companies on climate change, social progress and governance continues to gain steam in the U.S., emerging asa key selling point for money managers in their efforts to keep client money.Under Mr. Buffett’s leadership,the firm boasts 20% compounded annualized gains from 1965 to 2020, outperforming the S&P 500’s 10.2% gains including dividends during the period. Berkshire’s total returns over the past three- and five-year periods were 12% and 14%, respectively, compared with the index’s 19% and 18%.“Berkshire has gotten a pass in part because of its historically strong financial performance,” said Simiso Nzima, head of corporate governance at Calpers.Berkshire has continued to stress its continued focus on the long game. Mr. Buffett, who is chief executive and chairman of the company, built upa diverse portfolio of mostly U.S. businesses and investments meant to perform over decades, not to compete with a volatile market buoyed by booming tech stocks.Calpers, the nation’s largest public-pension fund with $444 billion in assets, co-sponsored a shareholder proposal imploring Berkshire to provide more disclosures on climate-related risks and opportunities.The pension fund is also withholding its votes to re-elect members of the board’s audit and governance committees on grounds of failing to meet shareholder demands over climate-risk disclosures. It said it was concerned that the board lacks new members, doesn’t engage with shareholders and isn’t letting investors vote on executive pay plans.“If you don’t refresh the board, you don’t have a next generation of directors able to learn from the long-serving directors before they leave the board,” Mr. Nzima said.Berkshire declined to comment ahead of the company’s Saturday meeting.Neuberger, a privately held money manager with more than $429 billion in assets, also said it would vote for several shareholder-led proposals related to environmental, social and corporate-governance issues, often abbreviated as ESG.“One would think that if companies have a responsibility to look out for the environment or deliver good on social issues and governance, that Berkshire might be a leader in these areas,” said Michelle Giordano, a Neuberger analyst who follows the company. “But it doesn’t seem like they are.”Berkshire said in its annual proxy statement that while it agreed companies had a responsibility to manage climate risks, it preferred to let its various operating units commit to their own environmental policies. Mandates from a small corporate office, the company wrote, would infringe upon the autonomy that has helped those businesses thrive under Berkshire’s ownership. Berkshire Hathaway Energy, for instance, already producesa sustainability report.Calpers has also pledged to support a proposal requiring the company to report its efforts to diversify its staff.Berkshire said the diversity-report proposal improperly suggests that “there is a standardized technique for each of Berkshire’s more than 60 operating businesses to address diversity, equity and inclusion.”“It would be unreasonable to ask for uniform, quantitative reporting for the purposes of comparing such dissimilar operations in different geographic locations,” Berkshire wrote.Glass Lewis and ISS recommended shareholders vote for the ESG proposals and withhold votes for certain directors.“This year there’s a lot more attention given from mainstream investors on ESG issues,” said Courteney Keatinge, a senior director of ESG research at Glass Lewis.Another factor is at play: Berkshire shares are slowly changing hands.Mr. Buffett’s longstanding plan to shrink his stake in the company over time has shifted more Berkshire shares to big institutional investors, said Lawrence Cunningham, a law professor at George Washington University who has written extensively about the company.About 70% of Berkshire’s shares are owned by individuals, many of whom are longtime holders loyal to Mr. Buffett, Mr. Cunningham said. And many don’t care whether Berkshire lacks a corporate sustainability report or an investor-relations team at the ready to answer their questions.“Berkshire’s unusual and valued family of individual shareholders may add to your understanding of our reluctance to court Wall Street analysts and institutional investors,” Mr. Buffett wrote in his most recent letter to shareholders. “We already have the investors we want and don’t think that they, on balance, would be upgraded by replacements.”The gradual uptick in institutional ownership, though, might already be empowering professional managers to press Berkshire on governance matters. When Mr. Buffett and his estate sell off his remaining shares, it is likely those money managers will hold an even bigger stake in the company, Mr. Cunningham said.“There will be a dawning of significant leadership and structural change, and these holders are preparing for that battle,” Mr. Cunningham said.","news_type":1,"symbols_score_info":{"BRK.B":0.9}},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":585,"commentLimit":10,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"symbols":[],"verified":2,"subType":0,"readableState":1,"langContent":"EN","currentLanguage":"EN","warmUpFlag":false,"orderFlag":false,"shareable":true,"causeOfNotShareable":"","featuresForAnalytics":[],"commentAndTweetFlag":false,"andRepostAutoSelectedFlag":false,"upFlag":false,"length":11,"subscribersOnly":false,"subscribersOnlyAccessible":false,"xxTargetLangEnum":"ORIG"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"isTiger":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"url":"/m/post/101614129"}