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Demystifying Proxy Voting: How Do Institutional Investors Vote Shares?

August 1, 2019
ESG Global Advisors
Corporate Access, ESG, Governance

Institutional investors have significant influence on proxy voting outcomes. But do companies understand how their institutional investors actually vote their shares? This piece offers important insights into the proxy voting process and how investors actually exercise their voting rights as part of their overall approach to ESG.

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