Proxy-voting certainly took the spotlight in 2025. We saw the SEC narrow the scope of permissible shareholder proposals toward the beginning of the year. And toward the end, a White House executive ...

Rule 206(4)-6 under the Investment Advisers Act requires a registered investment adviser with proxy voting authority to adopt policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure that proxies are ...

ISS Governance has announced its Benchmark Policy Updates for its proxy voting guidelines applicable to stockholder meetings on or after February 1, 2026. As explained in this November Cooley client ...

Regulators took on proxy voting in 2025, amid concerns that proxy advisors and large index investors are increasingly opposing management objectives. But our latest research on voting trends by the ...

HOUSTON, May 13 (Reuters) - Proxy advisory firms Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services have recommended that ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. JPMorgan's asset and wealth management division is ditching its long-held practice of using external ...

From 2020 to 2024, the number of shareholder proposals increased steadily, fueled by growing interest in the E and S issues of the ESG mix. Enhanced scrutiny on proxy advisory firms is in full swing.

BETHESDA, MD – Calvert, the nation’s largest family of socially responsible mutual funds, announced today that it has adopted revised Proxy Voting Guidelines that integrate corporate governance and ...