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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Wells Fargo's wealth and investment management unit launched an internal proxy voting service on Wednesday, cutting its reliance on big proxy advisory firms that are facing ...

JPMorgan is forcing a reckoning in the quiet but powerful world of proxy voting. By cutting off external proxy advisers and moving U.S. shareholder voting in house, the bank is betting that its own ...

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 ...