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The Power of Explaining Your No: How Investor Vote Rationales Drive Corporate Change

by Other Media

When institutional investors cast their votes against company directors, they increasingly do something that was once rare: they explain why. These “voting rationales” — brief written explanations accompanying dissenting votes — are emerging as a surprisingly effective tool for driving corporate governance reform, according to new research analyzing nearly 800,000 such disclosures.