ISS Governance has announced its Benchmark Policy Updates for its proxy voting guidelines applicable to stockholder meetings on or after February 1, 2026. As explained in this November Cooley client ...

Rule 206(4)-6 under the Investment Advisers Act requires a registered investment adviser with proxy voting authority to adopt policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure that proxies are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opinion: Critics of a new Texas proxy adviser law have argued that the statute is unconstitutional because it regulates ...

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