BlackRock is expanding a recently launched program that gives some of its largest clients a direct say in proxy voting, allowing investors in some of its Canadian and Irish funds a say for the first time on how their shares are cast at annual company meetings.
BlackRock announced in October that it was giving institutional investors in certain index strategies a choice in how they take part in proxy voting — the process where shareholders delegate the process of vote casting.
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