"Divest with" is a valid phrase and can be used in written English, although it is not as commonly used as the phrase "divest from." It means to rid oneself or a group of something, typically assets or responsibilities.
It can also mean to separate or detach oneself from something. Example: The company decided to divest with its underperforming subsidiary in order to focus on its core business operations.
Since 2010, the movement for fossil fuel divestment, started by 350.org, has persuaded 180 institutions, worth $50bn£33bnbn) to divest, with Stanford University in the US, Glasgow University in the UK and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund among the most notable.
Instead, it should be taking an inventory of revenue-producing public assets — including on-street and off-street parking systems, water systems, toll bridges, solid waste disposal plants, utilities and airports — to lease or divest with help from private partners willing to invest capital in improving them.
If you're really outraged, divest with them and encourage others to do the same.
The effect of divestiture depends on which owner is divesting, with the owner that has the most unique effect on a given response variable having the greatest influence.
The firms came back with a counterproposal late Monday under which they would divest operations with an estimated $1 billion in annual sales.
Mr. Pez said that the company needed to sell assets to pay debt, but that "it's quite tricky" to divest businesses with credit markets tight.
With OpenInvest you can "divest-invest with a swipe, vote shareholder resolutions, participate in mass campaigns, measure your impact, and claim the power that is rightfully yours in public markets," according to Claire Veuthey, Director of ESG & Impact.
Many draw a distinction between a settlement boycott – rejecting goods originating in Jewish colonies in the West Bank; cutting ties with settlement-based institutions; or demanding international companies divest from enterprises with links across the "green line" – and a boycott of Israel itself.
General Mills manufactured Lionel trains through Fundimensions, a subsidiary, until November 1985, when it was divested along with the rest of the toy group, including Kenner Products and Parker Brothers.
Simonides also said that the profitability of an investment portfolio without a connection to South Africa was "probably not a major reason" for the decision not to divest from companies with ties to South Africa.
The group recognises therefore that engagement with fund managers may include such considerations and involve strategies, where feasible, to divest progressively, consistent with the expected performance of the portfolio".
