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Robo-voting and proxy advisors

Fund families now vote at thousands of shareholder meetings a year, and many follow proxy advisors' recommendations almost automatically. Yet only 9 recent papers in the archive carry a shareholder-voting or proxy-advisor keyword, none of them about funds. Does robo-voting decide close votes, and has pass-through voting changed that?

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What prompted this

Since October 2025, only 9 papers carry a proxy-advisor, shareholder-voting or proxy-voting keyword (4 in economics journals, 2 in accounting, 2 in finance, 1 in management), and none of them carries a passive-fund, index-fund, institutional-investor, mutual-fund or robo keyword. Board composition, by contrast, is one of the fastest-growing keywords across all journals (trends page).

Questions

  • How often do funds vote exactly as a proxy advisor recommends, within hours of the recommendation, and does that decide close votes?
  • Do companies change their proposals to win the advisors' support?
  • Has pass-through voting, which lets fund investors choose how their shares are voted, changed outcomes?

Data that could help

Fund voting records (Form N-PX filings, ISS Voting Analytics), proxy advisors' recommendations, vote results and meeting dates.

Next step

From N-PX filings, compute for each fund family the share of votes cast as ISS recommended and the time between the recommendation and the vote.

Related research activity

The keywords this note follows, in the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals as of 2026-10-26
KeywordPapers, last 30 daysRankPapers per month, Oct 23 – Oct 26*Papers, last 36 months
shareholder voting0–15
proxy advisors0–3

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Robo-voting and proxy advisors. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/ideas/robo-voting-and-proxy-advisors

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  urldate = {2026-10-23},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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