The AFL-CIO Key Votes Survey is designed to help pension fund trustees fulfill their fiduciary duty to monitor the proxy voting performance of investment managers. Good corporate governance matters to shareholders and proxy voting is the most direct means for shareholders to exercise oversight in relation to the corporations they own. (Read the full report.) Proxy […]
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Comply or Explain: Good for Institutional Shareowners Too
James McRitchie, 09/02/2010 ,
South Africa’s Business Reports (Draft code requires institutions to disclose voting, 9/2/10) says “a draft copy of the institutional shareholder code for responsible investing was released for discussion yesterday. The code, which requires public disclosure of voting records and policies, is set to have a significant impact on the way in which the country’s R1.5 […]