Wednesday 14 August 2019

How institutional investors’ shareholder voting reflects their ideologies and values

a column by Patrick Bolton, Tao Li, Enrichetta Ravina and Howard Rosenthal for VOX: CEPR’s Policy Portal

The majority of shares in publicly traded companies in the US are held by institutional investors, who collectively have a large say on the broad objectives of these corporations.

This column shows that there is a systematic correlation between the type of institutional investor and their shareholder voting ideology. The two key dimensions of ideology are social responsibility and management discipline.

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As someone who prefers images to words I really appreciate the clarity of the charts and graphs that accompany the text of these VOX reports. Hazel.


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