2019 AGM Season Trends - Boudicca

With the peak of the 2019 AGM season behind us, our 2019 Proxy (AGM) Season Trends Report analyses the voting outcomes of this year’s AGMs and identifies three key trends that have dominated so far this year.

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As the peak of 2019 AGM season eases off, we get the opportunity to take stock of what happened in this year’s proxy voting arena and consider how our predictions and expectations played out.

We analyse the voting outcomes of this year’s AGMs and develop three trends that have dominated 2019:

• Board accountability
• Socio-political concerns
• Shareholder activism

Finally, this report offers recommendations on the future of shareholder engagement and how to successfully navigate the evolving corporate governance landscape.

About Boudicca

Boudicca is part of the Equiniti group of companies and is a specialist shareholder engagement company.

A leader in the growing arena of investor communications, and based in London, Boudicca works to secure maximised proxy voting and participation in shareholder meetings and corporate transactions. Boudicca has worked on 300 AGMs, EGMs and M&A transactions for clients in the UK, Europe, North America and cross border since inception ‐ including some of the most complex proxy voting cases and corporate transactions ‐ and delivers a high rate of success.

Published 12 August, 2019