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Institutional Investor Proxy Voting Policy Updates

By Randi Morrison posted yesterday

  

Georgeson’s “2026 Policy Updates from Key Investors” highlights select proxy voting policy/guideline revisions from Capital Group, Geode Capital Management, T. Rowe Price, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Dodge & Cox, and New York State Common Retirement Fund, reflecting evolving positions on topics such as reincorporation, board composition, say-on-pay and say-on-pay frequency, board diversity, and emerging shareholder proposals.

 

Among other recently updated policies and guidelines:

  • BNY Mellon’s 2026 proxy voting guidelines, which, among other updates, replace the standalone “Environmental and Social Risks” voting category with a broader “Shareholder Proposals” category and more explicitly tie voting decisions to long-term shareholder value, as reflected in this redline (courtesy of Proxy Analytics).
  • UBS’s 2026 proxy voting guidelines, which replace all references to “ESG” with “sustainability” (see this redline).

Access additional resources on our Institutional Investors page.

                    This post first appeared in the weekly Society Alert!

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