Guidance that aligns with your goals
Wealth-Focused
Recommendations are based only on protecting and enhancing investor wealth. The policy is not a "board aligned" policy because directors with poor impact on shareholder return will be opposed.
Restrictive governance and environmental protection proposals are generally opposed. “Stakeholder capitalism” proposals are opposed, even if supported by management. Proposals promoting diversity, equity, inclusion are also opposed. Exceptions only exist when proposals are directly tailored to revenue generation.
Blended
Recommendations are designed to prioritize shareholder returns and implement marketstandard governance practices.
This policy emphasizes standard governance practices while providing a more typical middle-of-the-road approach to both management and shareholder proposals.
Taft-Hartley
Recommendations are tailored to those investors who are governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), which enumerates rules under which pension fund assets must be managed and invested.
The U.S. Department of Labor has stated that proxy voting rights are valuable plan assets, which must be exercised in accordance with the fiduciary duties of loyalty and prudence. The TaftHartley policy is similar to the ESG policy, though puts special emphasis on labor relations.
Catholic
Recommendations are governed by the Principles for USCCB Investments, which seek to promote long-term shareholder value and the common good.
This policy, like the principles of the USCCB upon which it is based, addresses issues that affect long-term shareholder value, while considering workplace issues that may have an impact on long-term economic best interests of participants and beneficiaries. This includes corporate policies that affect job security, wage levels, local economic development, corporate responsibility, workplace safety, and environmental safety.
Custom
Customers interested in this policy typically adjust one of our existing policies to meet their unique investment needs.
Whatever your approach may be, we are happy to walk you through a custom policy and change our guidelines to match.
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Disclosure on Texas Senate Bill 2337
According to Texas Senate Bill 2337, proxy advisors must "publicly and conspicuously disclose on the home or front page of the proxy advisor's publicly accessible Internet website that the advisor's proxy advisory services include advice and recommendations that are not based solely on the financial interest of shareholders."
According to definitions contained in SB 2337, proxy advisory services are not provided solely in the financial interest of the shareholders of a company if the service takes into account, “one or more nonfinancial factors, including ... governance goal[s] ... [or] involves providing a voting recommendation with respect to a shareholder-sponsored proposal that: (A) is inconsistent with the voting recommendation of the board of directors or a board committee composed of a majority of independent directors; and (B) ... does not include a written economic analysis of the financial impact on shareholders of the proposal ... A written economic analysis ... must include the projected quantifiable impact of the proposal, if adopted, on the investment returns of the client,” among other items.
Based on the definitions set forth in SB 2337, Egan-Jones does not provide recommendations solely in the financial interest of the shareholders of a company.
Egan-Jones has clearly defined policies that apply specific analysis to each category of proposal. However, we acknowledge that circumstances may lead to an exception to the rule. Recommendations contained in Egan-Jones reports are reviewed for a variety of factors, some of which are non-financial as defined in SB 2337. Examples of such factors include, but are not limited to, fraudulent practices, criminal behavior, regulatory failures, material controversies, and poor disclosure.
Egan-Jones polices can be viewed at ejproxy.com/methodology.
Note: recent preliminary injunctions by Judge Alan D. Albright regarding SB 2337 only provided relief for two proxy advisors, excluding Egan-Jones.
