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. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:30:09 +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 U.S. Regional Brief – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 U.S. Regional Brief https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/10/02/u-s-regional-brief/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=u-s-regional-brief https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/10/02/u-s-regional-brief/#respond Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:32:31 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=176889?d=20251001155931EDT Posted by John Galloway, Vanguard, Inc., on Thursday, October 2, 2025
Editor's Note:

John Galloway is the Global Head of Investment Stewardship at Vanguard, Inc. This post is based on a Vanguard report.

This Regional Brief reports on the corporate governance topics and trends Vanguard’s Investment Stewardship team observed across portfolio companies domiciled in the U.S.; it includes data on the proxy votes cast by the Vanguard-advised funds between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025 (the 2025 proxy year). [1] We provide this brief, and other publications and reports, to give Vanguard fund investors and other interested parties an understanding of the engagement and proxy voting activities we conduct on behalf of the funds.

Vanguard’s Investment Stewardship team’s analysis of portfolio companies’ corporate governance practices centers on four pillars of good corporate governance, which are used to organize this brief: board composition and effectiveness, board oversight of strategy and risk, executive pay, and shareholder rights.

During the 2025 proxy year, the team conducted 807 engagements related to 701 companies in the U.S., representing $4.4 trillion in equity assets under management (AUM) of the $6.5 trillion in Vanguard-advised funds’ total equity AUM in the region. The funds voted on 35,818 proposals across 3,979 companies in the region.

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