The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:59:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png July 2012 Proxy Voting Fact Sheet – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 July 2012 Proxy Voting Fact Sheet https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/08/12/july-2012-proxy-voting-fact-sheet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=july-2012-proxy-voting-fact-sheet https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/08/12/july-2012-proxy-voting-fact-sheet/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:47:52 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=31526?d=20150113140700EST Posted by Matteo Tonello, The Conference Board, on Sunday, August 12, 2012
Editor's Note:

Matteo Tonello is managing director of corporate leadership at the Conference Board. This post relates to a Conference Board report authored by Dr. Tonello, Melissa Aguilar, and Thomas Singer of the Conference Board. The report is available here (registration may be required). A post about a previous proxy voting fact sheet is available here.

As say-on-pay (SOP) resolutions were being voted on during the 2012 proxy season, management nominees to boards of directors of U.S. public companies faced less opposition by investors. This and other data from nearly 2,500 annual general meetings (AGMs) held between January 1 and June 30 at Russell 3000 companies are discussed in the new edition of Proxy Voting Fact Sheet — the periodic report issued by The Conference Board in collaboration with FactSet Research. Data discussed in the report is compared with the S&P 500 and analyzed across 20 business sectors.

The report reviews the most recent statistics on:

  • Voted, omitted, and withdrawn shareholder proposals.
  • Proposal sponsors.
  • Average voting results, by topics.
  • Say-on-pay management proposals.

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