Proxy voting and compliance management solution

The accurate and timely voting of proxies is increasingly important to the success of institutional investors. Regulators and plan beneficiaries expect fiduciaries to exercise the utmost care with proxy votes. Glass Lewis provides comfort to such fiduciaries with ViewPoint, the world’s most accurate and reliable proxy voting system.

Glass Lewis' ViewPoint voting system is highly flexible and customizable, allowing clients to vote proxies in accordance with their own policies, workflow and compliance priorities. It is built on the bedrock principle that proxy votes matter and that shareholders should expect their votes to be accurately transmitted and counted. The system and professional services provided by Glass Lewis ensure that institutions receive all proxies they are entitled to vote; that those proxies are instructed properly, in accordance with investors’ policies; and that votes are transmitted correctly. And, of course, the system provides a wide range of reporting options to ensure investors can fulfill their regulatory, fiduciary and contractual obligations.

The solution, which enables partial or complete outsourcing of the proxy voting process, includes modules for guideline development; client account setup and custodian interaction; proxy analysis and decision making; custom policy implementation; electronic vote submission; record-keeping; auditing; standard and custom reporting; Form N-PX creation and optional vote record web hosting.

Glass Lewis' ViewPoint not only provides investors with a comprehensive and reliable voting solution but also permits users to monitor and audit the work Glass Lewis does on their behalf. ViewPoint allows users to log on and view the status of account set-up, ballot receipt, ballot reconciliation, vote casting processes and the creation of vote disclosure reports, including Form N-PX. No other system provides the complete visibility that ViewPoint offers.

• Voting services and online platform are substantially more accurate, transparent, auditable and flexible than other systems in the market;
• System is completely compliant with regulatory requirements for independence, record storage, and voting record disclosure;
• Patent-pending technology ensures policies are accurately applied;
• The system is substantially easier to use than other systems because of its account name, account numbering, workflow, permissioning, account grouping and report scheduling features;
• The online system has the best uptime record of any vote agency platform and, unlike other systems, has no scheduled outages during workdays;
• Data extracts permit user organizations to capture critical data in their own data systems for replication, auditing, compliance and record-keeping purposes, if the institution so chooses;
• Tools enable online and offline auditing of account setup, ballot handling, reconciliation, user activity, policy implementation, and voting record for compliance, accuracy and timeliness;
• Fully independent and objective research powers ViewPoint;
• Glass Lewis has global presence, with offices in Asia, Australia, North America and Europe; and
• Glass Lewis' clients include money managers, mutual funds, hedge funds, public pension funds, labor union funds, SRI managers and religious pension funds.