2026 US Annual Meetings Report

• Meeting formats and trends: Explore in-person, virtual and hybrid meeting formats, alongside new voting methods and trends. Among Computershare-supported US meetings, 71% were in-person, 27% virtual and 2% hybrid.
• Shifts in ESG and anti-ESG proposals: Examine the decline in environmental and social proposal activity, record-low investor support for environmental and social proposals, and the counterproposals shaping the 2026 proxy season.
• The emergence of AI governance: Learn how AI moved from a developing talking point to a mainstream proxy agenda item, including proposals concerning workforce displacement and copyright liabilities.
• The impact of SEC policy changes: Understand the report’s discussion of shareholder proposal exclusions under Rule 14a-8 and the shift away from substantive no-action review.
• Meeting regulations around the globe: Explore recent regulatory and legislative developments affecting in-person, virtual and hybrid annual meetings across jurisdictions. The report also includes global meeting-format benchmarks to help put US trends in context.

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