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Glass Lewis recently launched its own annual policy survey process to gather input for developing 2025 proxy voting guidelines. Glass Lewis first launched its annual policy survey process last year, and is now continuing the practice as we go into the next proxy season. Glass Lewis accepts responses from all Glass Lewis clients and industry participants. In the announcement of its policy survey on its website, Glass Lewis notes:

Glass Lewis has always been committed to better understanding how investors and companies view corporate governance and ESG topics. To ensure we capture broad market feedback as a part of our annual policy-setting process, you are invited to participate in our 2024 Policy Survey.

Your views and feedback will inform our understanding of evolving market sentiment on key governance and stewardship topics, ensure our 2025 Benchmark Voting Policy Guidelines are comprehensive, and enable us to provide more meaningful analysis.

After processing the feedback, Glass Lewis will share a summary of the survey results first with clients and then make it available on our website. Soon thereafter, we will publish our 2025 Benchmark Voting Policy Guidelines. Please note we will not identify individuals or organizations participating in the survey when we publish the results.

The Glass Lewis survey is wide ranging, asking questions about related party transactions, the use and oversight of generative AI, the board’s oversight of cybersecurity risks, director expertise, several compensation topics, responses to investor dissent, shareholder rights issues, stewardship and engagement, and a variety of ESG matters

The survey is open until Friday, August 30 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time.

– Dave Lynn