Sentence examples for voting proxies from inspiring English sources

"When we are looking at voting proxies we are voting [for] things that are going to improve the social mission," Vogel said.

In a telephone interview, Mr. Johnson said that Fidelity was already focused on voting proxies in fund shareholders' best interest and that the S.E.C. had ample means of monitoring the company.

The debate over how the fund should vote its shares, she said, awakened the board to the possibility that it had other holdings where voting proxies or taking other action might be consistent with its mission.

One step that's supported by the fund industry is an SEC proposal that would require funds to disclose their policies for voting proxies.

Rangers' power structure is ultimately gathered around those shareholders who granted their voting proxies to Sandy Easdale, himself the holder of a smaller shareholding, ahead of the annual meeting in December.

Other positive changes have been better mechanics for voting, proxy contests and precatory proposals, the elimination of staggered boards and the advent of majority voting.

These efforts can include initiating conversations with corporate management on issues of concern, along with submitting and voting proxy resolutions.

Since many institutional investors follow the recommendations of proxy advisors in their voting, proxy advisor policies are an important consideration for corporate boards in the development of programs that require shareholder approval such as stock option repricing programs.

We vote proxies with a singular focus and with a singular constituency in mind — to maximize value for the funds' shareholders".

Mr. McCall also said that in the past he had allowed money managers he hired to vote proxies of shares in their management portfolios on stock option plans for executives.

But big fund companies such as the Vanguard Group and Fidelity Investments, as well as the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund trade group, reply that forcing funds to disclose how they vote proxies won't help investors it will actually hurt them.