As a large, long-term investor, Teachers’ seeks to advance best governance practices in the companies in which we invest. Through our proxy voting guidelines, voting positions and governance commentaries, we work to use our influence as shareowners to bring about positive change and continue our long record of leadership on matters of governance.
Teachers' is actively involved with international governance-minded organizations and is a founding member of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance.
How we decide on our positions
Our Corporate Governance Principles and Proxy Voting Guidelines are reviewed each year. We seek to apply them consistently across our investments while considering the individual circumstances of companies.
Reporting our voting positions
We record and publicize our proxy voting decisions on each issue or proposal voted. Our Proxy Votes page enables searches by company and month.
Teachers’ alignment with best practices in governance
Actively involved in the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance and other international governance organizations that promote good corporate governance standards and practices.
Compliance with UK Stewardship Code principles. The Code seeks to improve engagement between institutional investors and investee companies. Teachers’ has voluntarily chosen to report on its stewardship activities to the Financial Reporting Council, which established the Code in 2010.
Member of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which aims to strengthen governance by improving revenue transparency and accountability in the extractives (oil, gas and mining) sector.
The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan wishes to be transparent in its proxy-voting activities. This Web site is intended only to provide information to plan members, co-sponsors of the plan and others. It shows how we intend to vote our proxies in response to solicitations by either the management of the companies in which we own voting shares, or others. Our decisions on each proxy matter are based on our Proxy Voting Guidelines, the due diligence and analysis that we have conducted and the conclusions that we have reached as a single investor. We urge all investors to conduct their own evaluations of these issues and to arrive at the decisions that best meet their own investment objectives. By providing our decisions on this Web site, we do not intend to solicit the proxy of any other shareholders nor do we request any other shareholder to execute, not execute or revoke the proxies that have been solicited by management or anyone else.
