Fact Sheets: Racial Equity Outcomes in Proxy Voting

Proxy voting is one of the most powerful tools investors have to govern capital responsibly, hold corporations accountable, and safeguard both markets and society. At its best, proxy voting creates transparency, exposes systemic risk, and affirms that fiduciary duty extends beyond quarterly returns. At its worst, it can normalize corporate harm, ignore poor quality disclosures, and allow the red flags of weak governance, corruption, and exploitation to metastasize across entire economies.