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Oct 22, 2025 Get Ready for the Pass-Through Revolution
A quiet revolution is unfolding in the worlds of proxy voting, corporate governance and investor communications. So-called ‘pass-through’ voting programs, rolled out by large asset managers, are bringing millions of new participants into the proxy-voting ecosystem and creating entirely new cohorts of retail shareholders at publicly listed companies.
On October 21, Vanguard made a major announcement in this process with the addition of three funds – including its flagship S&P 500 ETF (VOO), the world’s largest ETF – to the list of participating funds in its pass-through voting program next year (which it calls Investor Choice). With this expansion, 20 million of Vanguard’s 50 million clients will be eligible to participate in its pass-through voting program in the 2026 season.
Aug 11, 2025 From Coffee Chats to Career Goals: Insights from GPP’s 2025 Summer Interns
As summer winds down, we’re excited to recognize the contributions of our four exceptional summer interns: Abby Ferraro, Devin McDonald, Emily Luo and Veronica O’Brien. From day one, they approached every project with curiosity, enthusiasm and a genuine desire to learn. Whether assisting in drafting communications materials, supporting client work, or diving into research, each … continued
Aug 27, 2024 Insights and Advice from GPP’s 2024 Summer Interns
As the end of another busy summer approaches, we’d like to shine a spotlight on our three outstanding summer interns: Rosa Sun, Mauryan Uppalapati and Max Friedman. With an eagerness to contribute to the firm’s client focus and a dedication to learning more about the work, our interns demonstrated their enthusiasm, curiosity and unique perspectives. … continued
Mar 6, 2024 GPP Dealmakers Survey: 2024
Ahead of the 36th Annual Tulane Corporate Law Institute, Gladstone Place Partners fielded a survey to readers of our exclusive activism and corporate governance newsletter and received predictions on topics ranging from deal market activity, the industries expected to drive deal-making this year and the most prominent trend in the 2024 proxy season. Importantly, dealmakers … continued
Sep 1, 2023 Insights and Advice from GPP’s 2023 Summer Interns
As we near the end of summer, we’d like to take a moment to highlight our four fantastic summer interns and their experience at GPP. When they weren’t busy lunching at Le Rock, enjoying a Mets game at Citifield, or touring Bloomberg LP’s offices, this summer’s class drafted M&A comms plans, contributed to client teams, … continued
Dec 1, 2022 From Mom & Pop to Meme: Communications Considerations of BlackRock’s Retail Voting Proposal
As we put the US midterm election cycle behind us, voting rights has cropped up as a major issue in the corporate governance community as well. Issuers have long bemoaned the power of a handful of major institutions that could sway elections with the click of a keyboard. Now, BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink … continued
Aug 19, 2022 GPP’s Summer Intern Class of 2022: Coffee, Comms and Q&A
This summer, GPP welcomed four summer interns to its Midtown office. It was a busy season, packed with networking events, presentations, and many iced coffees to combat the summer heat.
Dec 17, 2021 Five Lessons from Successful de-SPACs
From our work in the capital markets, Gladstone Place Partners sees five key lessons to successfully navigating the de-SPAC process.
Sep 2, 2021 Detailing DE&I: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Discussion Jumps in Annual Filings
Amid investor pressure, companies are getting more specific in their DE&I disclosures. Two years ago, 14% of the S&P 500 mentioned DE&I in 10-Ks. Just a year later, 88% did, per our research.
Aug 10, 2021 GPP’s Summer Intern Class of 2021: Musings from Midtown
This year, GPP welcomed its intern class to its Midtown office, and we – the interns – could not have been more excited. After a year of remote learning and Zoom burnout, we were thrilled to join the team live and in person for the summer.