CPA’s 2022 Institutional Investor Proxy Vote Analysis
Support by the largest institutional investors for the Center for Political Accountability’s corporate political disclosure resolution dropped to 75.4 percent in 2022, down from 2021’s record support of 82.5 percent from this group of investors, according to analysis based on shareholder voting data from Insightia.
Corporate PACs vs Treasury Spending
Corporate PAC-Treasury Fund spending
MarketWatch: Lindsey Graham’s corporate donors find themselves linked to his controversial abortion bill.
Why ‘everyone’s playing gotcha with political spending.’
Financial Times: Berkshire and Tesla resist making political spending disclosures
CME Group also an outlier as growing number of S&P 500 companies publish more information
NYTimes DealBook: Lifting the curtain on political donations
In the wake of the 2020 presidential election and riot at the Capitol, corporate giants have looked more closely at their political contributions and become more transparent about where the money goes.
RELEASE: 2022 CPA-Zicklin Index Published, Expanded to Russell 1000
Dramatic Gap in Political Disclosure and Accountability Between S&P 500 and Smaller Companies