Press

LGPS Central unifies voting process and gains "significant influence" over stewardship

Tumelo PR — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:30:19 GMT

LGPS Central has cast its first votes using pass-through voting — an important moment in a broader strategy to strengthen stewardship across its portfolio.

Net Zero Investor: LAPFF introduces pass-through voting for its asset-owner members.

Tumelo PR — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:43:43 GMT

Through a partnership with Tumelo and governance adviser PIRC, LAPFF members using LGIM pooled funds can now automatically apply LAPFF alerts (voting recommendations) — an initiative designed for scalability across other fund providers.

NILGOSC announces its adoption of pass-through voting (PTV)

Tumelo PR — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 11:46:39 GMT

We are thrilled to see coverage of Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee (NILGOSC) announcing its adoption of pass-through voting (PTV) — a move made possible through Tumelo's partnership with Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM).

Using PTV, NILGOSC are now voting across the LGIM equity funds, which ensures full alignment across their portfolio and a stronger voice in corporate governance.

Tumelo CEO quoted in Financial Times

Tumelo PR — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:33:13 GMT

This article by Patrick Temple-West discusses the growing trend among major asset managers like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard to offer investors a “voting choice” at shareholder meetings. It explains how, historically, asset managers voted on behalf of investors on key issues like board elections and executive pay. However, under pressure from US Republicans accusing them of "wokeism" these firms are now allowing investors to vote directly, often using policies developed by proxy advisors. Differences in voting policies — such as approaches to gender diversity and ESG issues — highlight the complexities of this shift.

Tumelo's partnership with SSGA featured in Ignites Europe

Tumelo PR — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 11:41:26 GMT

The article outlines how State Street Global Advisors has taken the lead as the first asset manager to offer pass-through voting to European retail investors. The initiative, piloting in the $8.8 billion SPDR MSCI World Ucits ETF, empowers individual investors to choose from a range of proxy-voting policies, enabling them to influence how their shares are voted at company meetings. The article notes the programme is facilitated by a partnership with Tumelo.

Proxy-voting experts say Tumelo's technology is a promising solution

iskandar@tumelo.com (Iskandar Suhaimi) — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:09:07 GMT

Corporate governance experts Jill Fisch and Jeff Schwartz have recently mentioned Tumelo in their research paper analysing the current state of corporate proxy voting.

Investment Week: Tumelo and CIRCA5000's pioneering voting deal

Tumelo PR — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 14:06:05 GMT

Key investment publication Investment Week has written about Tumelo’s “game changing” investor-voting arrangement with fund manager CIRCA5000.

“Game-changing” investor-voting with CIRCA5000 goes live

Tumelo PR — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 09:49:52 GMT

A landmark partnership between Tumelo and impact investor CIRCA5000 will allow investors in the fund manager’s ETF range to choose how their shares are voted.

Tumelo named an "innovative player" in shareholder voting by The Times

Tumelo PR — Wed, 03 May 2023 11:46:27 GMT

An article in The Times has referenced Tumelo as a technology business “helping to fill the information gap” between shareholders and the companies they are invested in.

Investment Week features Tumelo's white paper on pass-through voting

Tumelo PR — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:09:21 GMT

Our white paper A Deep-Dive into Pass-Through Voting has been covered by a number of investment and pension publications, including Investment Week, Professional Pensions and others.

Referencing our paper, the provision of pass-through voting is set to shift from a "nice to have" to being an essential service all investors are seeking from their fund managers, according to the Investment Week coverage.