Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Vermont Pension Investment Commission (“VPIC”) is seeking proposals from qualified firms to provide specified proxy voting and corporate governance services for VPIC investment accounts, and optional company engagement services based on analysis of ESG criteria. Currently, the VPIC receives proxy voting and corporate governance services from a single vendor which receives proxies from the VPIC custodians and votes them according to custom VPIC proxy policies. Services requested include receipt and administration of domestic and international VPIC proxies, voting of these proxies according to the VPIC policies, recording and reporting of all votes cast, assistance in international issuer proxy policy development, advice in other proxy related matters, and services for company engagement based on analysis of the pension portfolio’s holdings and ESG criteria across the VPIC portfolio.
