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For decades, proxy voting  has been one of the most labor-intensive functions in institutional investing. Asset managers must review thousands of shareholder proposals each year across their portfolio companies, evaluating issues that range from board composition and executive compensation to climate disclosures and merger approvals. Traditionally, this analysis relied on large governance teams and external proxy advisory firms to interpret proposals and recommend voting posi

Corporate governance is entering a new technological phase. For most of modern financial history, shareholder decision-making has relied on a relatively linear system: companies issue proxy materials, institutional investors analyze proposals, proxy advisory firms provide recommendations, and shareholders cast their votes. The system worked, but it was slow, fragmented, and often limited by the amount of information analysts could realistically process. Artificial intelligenc

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