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 ...

Recent news reports have made it increasingly obvious that lasting reform of the proxy advisory system will require congressional action. Proxy advisory actions — recommendations to investors, ...

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 ...

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.

Boards must navigate a new environment in which proxy advisor recommendations may be more fragmented and their impact on voting outcomes may be less predictable. Proxy advisors have long played an ...

As expected, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s five commissioners voted unanimously to publish its long-awaited Concept Release on the U.S. Proxy System. The so-called “proxy plumbing” concept ...

On 11 December 2025, President Trump issued a long-awaited executive order (EO) entitled “Protecting American Investors from Foreign-Owned and Politically-Motivated Proxy Advisors.” The EO refers to ...

There has recently been a surge of US states proposing proxy voting bills, which would implement a sole-economic-interest standard for proxy voting by fiduciaries of public pension benefit plans and ...

Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global technology leader that processes $8 trillion in tokenized assets every month, is expanding its reach into the digital asset space. On Monday, April ...