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Your 401(k) plan could be burning down the rainforest

Published Updated 4 Min Read

Employees know they’re making 401(k) contributions, but do they know where their money is going? Probably not.

Employees may be inadvertently investing in companies that directly contradict publicly-stated corporate sustainability goals on issues like climate change and racial justice, according to a press release from California-based non-profit As You Sow. To help employees understand how their money is invested, they’ve released a corporate 401(k) sustainability scorecard that grades companies on their retirement plan investments so that employees know exactly what they own — and whether or not it lines up with their own values.

Paola Peralta
Associate Editor

Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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