Director of Corporate Governance What you need to know The agenda is being reset for US shareholder meetings in 2026. Regulatory shifts have led to a steep decline in overall shareholder ...

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 ...

AST Financial and NuArca have completed a successful scaled-up pilot of their blockchain-based proxy voting solution, ahead of its planned launch in March 2018. The pilot tested the solution’s ability ...

For decades, proxy voting was largely ignored and bundled away as a niche back-office chore best entrusted to third parties.

At Tesla’s recent annual meeting, shareholders approved an unusual compensation proposal for CEO Elon Musk – if achieved, he could be the world’s first trillionaire. The vote passed by a comfortable ...

Increased attention on proxy voting could represent a backdoor into ESG investing for retirement plan participants. With only 3% of 401(k) plans currently offering investments labeled as adhering to ...

In a break that shapes the architecture of shareholder power, JPMorgan Asset Management, which manages more than $7 trillion in client assets — severed all ties this week with proxy advisory giants ...

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. Read more here.