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Daily Brief ESG: With Passive Funds Dominating Markets Today and more

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  • With Passive Funds Dominating Markets Today, Proxy Voting Tends to Be Limited to Formalities


With Passive Funds Dominating Markets Today, Proxy Voting Tends to Be Limited to Formalities

By Aki Matsumoto

  • For asset management companies that mainly use passive funds, it is difficult to have sufficient dialogue with all portfolio companies equally in the environment where AGMs are concentrated in June.
  • As more companies focus on meeting formal voting guidelines, there is a risk that the goal of improving corporate value through management reforms will be put aside.
  • Solving individual management issues will lead to increased corporate value. However, due to physical reasons, not many companies engage in dialogue regarding individual management issues.

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