Vanguard expands proxy voting program to cover $8.2 trillion in assets

Guest post by: Matthew Illian, Director of Responsible Investing, and Noah Tabor, General Counsel, United Church FundsFor more than 80 years, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Rule 14a-8 has done something both simple and powerful: it has given shareholders a meaningful way to put questions of corporate accountability before their fellow owners. Now the SEC’s proposal to rescind that Rule,