Investor Engagement
Stewardship – and proxy voting in particular – is a central way for investors to mitigate systemic risks to their portfolios. Below are resources that may assist shareholders mitigate systemic risks related to inequality and climate change via their proxy voting.
Emerging Technologies, Evolving Responsibilities:
AI Stewardship in Motion:
How First-Mover Asset Owners and Asset Managers are Responding to AI Risks
While investors have been quick to embrace AI’s investment upside, they have been slower to update their stewardship priorities to respond to the technology’s unprecedented threats. But some asset managers and asset owners on both sides of the Atlantic are leading on the emergent project of AI-related stewardship. AI Stewardship in Motion: How First-Mover Asset Owners and Asset Managers are Responding to AI Risks highlights how first-mover institutional investors are retooling stewardship frameworks, proxy voting guidelines, issuer expectations, and engagement priorities in response to the AI revolution.
Fact Sheet
Director Voting
A Key Lever for Investor Stewardship
Director votes are one of the most powerful tools investors have to hold corporate boards accountable for poor risk oversight. Through them, investors effectively define what constitutes acceptable corporate governance and risk management with respect to a range of key issues. This new two-page primer offers investors an overview of director vote logistics, strategic considerations and resources, as well as examples of significant recent votes.
Additional Resources
Majority Action analyzed how shareholder proposals related to freedom of association and collective bargaining, lobbying, political spending, workplace racial and gender equity, workplace safety and working conditions, and technology guardrails performed in the 2025 proxy season relative to previous years
The 2025 Vote Guides from Majority Action provide investors with recommendations to support shareholder resolutions addressing systemic risks related to inequality, systemic racism, and climate change. These guides aim to empower fiduciaries to use their proxy voting power to promote corporate accountability and drive meaningful change in the 2025 proxy season.
Majority Action’s interactive Proxy Voting Dashboards complement our Climate in the Boardroom and Equity in the Boardroom reports, covering the 2024 proxy season, by providing a comprehensive breakdown of the proxy voting records of the 22 largest asset managers. These dashboards are a resource for asset owners and other interested parties to evaluate and compare how the world’s largest managers are using proxy voting to mitigate risks related to climate change, racial inequity, and social inequality.
Majority Action's Proxy Voting Policy Language provides model language for investors to incorporate into their proxy voting guidelines, aiming to hold corporate boards accountable for addressing systemic risks such as climate change, inequality and systemic racism.