The following practices are in place to support this approach to proxy voting:
- We appoint Institutional Shareholder Services Group to provide proxy voting research on ASX listed companies and execution services via a proxy voting platform
- We appoint the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors Limited to provide guidance, engagement and advice on issues arising in respect to proxy voting.
- We monitor voting activity by our investment managers in international markets.
- We ensure that each of our investment managers’ proxy voting policies are reasonable and consistent with our overall values.
- We maintain broad oversight on corporate governance matters and notify the Trustee of any issues warranting intervention.