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, 21 May 2026 20:45:50 +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 How Well Do You Know Your Shareholders? – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 How Well Do You Know Your Shareholders? https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/06/18/how-well-do-you-know-your-shareholders/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-well-do-you-know-your-shareholders https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/06/18/how-well-do-you-know-your-shareholders/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:28:11 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=46900?d=20150112115137EST Posted by Mary Ann Cloyd, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Editor's Note:

Mary Ann Cloyd is leader of the Center for Board Governance at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. This post is based on an edition of ProxyPulse™, a collaboration between Broadridge Financial Solutions and PwC’s Center for Board Governance; the full report, including additional figures, is available here.

ProxyPulse™ provides data and analysis on voting trends as the proxy season progresses. This first edition for the 2013 season covers the 549 annual meetings held between January 1, and April 23, 2013 and subsequent editions will incorporate May and June meetings. These reports are part of an ongoing commitment to provide valuable benchmarking data to the industry.

The analysis is based upon Broadridge’s processing of shares held in street name, which accounts for over 80% of all shares outstanding of U.S. publicly-listed companies. For purposes of this report, the term “institutional shareholders” refers to mutual funds, public and private pension funds, hedge funds, investment managers, managed accounts and voting by vote agents. The term “retail shareholders” refers to individuals whose shares are held beneficially in brokerage accounts.

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