Proxy voting records detail how the New York City Retirement Systems voted their shares in portfolio companies. The data includes votes on board elections and shareholder proposals. It is published by the City of New York and was last updated in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in `Vote Against Management` by `System` or `Company Name` to measure shareholder dissent.
- Model the relationship between `Proposal Text` topics and resulting `Vote Instruction` using text classification.
- Track `Meeting Date` and `Proposal Number` frequency by `Ticker` to assess corporate governance activity over time.
- Identify geographic focus by aggregating votes by `Country` for international portfolio holdings.
Strengths
- Contains 16 detailed columns covering company identifiers, meeting details, and vote decisions.
- Data is directly sourced from the New York City Retirement Systems, an authoritative public pension entity.
Limitations
- The total number of voting records (rows) is unknown, preventing assessment of statistical significance.
- Temporal coverage (`Meeting Date` range) is unspecified, limiting longitudinal analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- New York City Retirement Systems, published via data.cityofnewyork.us.
- Collection Method
- Official recording of proxy votes cast by the pension systems.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Updated in April 2026, indicating recent maintenance.
- Geography
- Global, based on the `Country` field for portfolio companies.