Proxy voting forms an important part of our broader sustainable investment program. We conduct our proxy voting in-house. Proxy voting research is provided by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) and CGI Glass Lewis.
- The corporate governance principles underlying ACSI’s voting advice can be found in ACSI’s Governance Guidelines.
- ACSI members update these guidelines on a regular basis.
- We report voting activity regularly to the Board as part of our sustainable investment reporting.
- You can see a summary of our voting activity for the previous financial year below.
QSuper is now part of Australian Retirement Trust. To see the full details of how we've voted at company meetings of QSuper holdings (since 1 January 2018) and Australian Retirement Trust Super Savings holdings (since 4 October 2022), please visit Australian Retirement Trust.
You can also find a summary of proxy voting outcomes for 2021-22 for both QSuper and Super Savings options on the ART website.
View our proxy voting record history
We provide the following additional information on how we voted on these shareholder proposals and why:
- In 2021-22, these shareholder proposals totalled 20 and 95 across domestic and international markets, respectively.
- Of the 115 proposals in total, we supported 81, or 70.4%.
- Those that we did not support are the result of our proxy voting policy, outlined above. In most cases, this was because the proposals put what we deemed questionable constraints on company management, addressed risks the company is already managing sufficiently, or weren't well aligned to long-term value for the shareholders of that company.
Australian Retirement Trust QSuper record of proxy voting 2021-221
Australian voting outcomes |
Quarter 1 |
Quarter 2 |
Quarter 3 |
Quarter 4 |
Total |
Number of meetings |
12 |
149 |
11 |
41 |
213 |
Number of resolutions |
74 |
890 |
31 |
250 |
1,245 |
Votes for |
67 |
776 |
27 |
212 |
1,082 |
Votes against |
7 |
114 |
4 |
35 |
160 |
Votes abstain |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
International voting outcomes |
Quarter 1 |
Quarter 2 |
Quarter 3 |
Quarter 4 |
Total |
Number of meetings |
292 |
223 |
365 |
1,815 |
2,695 |
Number of resolutions |
2,760 |
1,629 |
3,687 |
23,908 |
31,984 |
Votes for |
2,278 |
1,410 |
2,980 |
20,051 |
26,719 |
Votes against |
453 |
202 |
644 |
3,455 |
4,754 |
Votes abstain |
29 |
17 |
63 |
402 |
511 |
1. This is the aggregated record of all votes cast on behalf of the Trustee for Australian and international equities over the period.