Connecting or dividing

Corporate Governance and Stewardship
Written By Tom Gosling
11 Mar 2026

Will pass-through voting connect end investors better to companies or result in the quiet unravelling of investor stewardship?

My colleague Suren Gomtsian and I worked with the Issuer & Investor Forum to assess the stewardship implications of pass-through voting, the innovation whereby investors in pooled funds can direct their asset managers how to vote. I wrote a blog on our research for the European Corporate Governance Institute, which you can find here.

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