Governance Intelligence.
Stewardship Precision.
VINCIT QSV is a stewardship and governance intelligence platform that transforms how companies prepare for AGMs, engage investors, and navigate stakeholder expectations across international markets.
New: the remuneration database of the entire ASX300. What companies pay, set beside what investors say and how they vote. See what it covers
New research · September 2026
The Twelve-Year Question
Director tenure, independence and the board chair in the investor voting policies that apply to ASX-listed companies.
By Max Purcell, FounderThe draft 5th edition of the ASX Principles drops the ten-year reference point for independence. Investor policies have not dropped theirs. We read the policies of the 89 investors and proxy advisers that apply to ASX companies and address director independence, and set out what their tests mean for board renewal, independence disclosure and chair succession.
The governance engagement gap
Companies face AGM season armed with spreadsheets, generic proxy advisor reports, and fragmented engagement records. The result: reactive governance, preventable opposition, and missed opportunities to build shareholder alignment.
Opaque Investor Expectations
Institutional investors and proxy advisors each have distinct voting policies buried in lengthy PDFs. No company has time to cross-reference them all against their governance profile, nor engage with every key stakeholder.
Disconnected Engagement
Prior AGM results, engagement meetings, proxy advisor feedback, and governance profiles for issuers live in separate systems. There's no single view of what happened, what changed, and what's at risk.
Reactive, Not Strategic
Most companies learn about governance concerns weeks before the AGM — when it's too late. Strategic engagement requires 6–12 months of intelligence-led preparation.
The Proxy Advisor Divergence
The proxy advisory landscape is fragmenting. JPMorgan has replaced external proxy advisors entirely with an internal AI platform. Wells Fargo has cut ties with ISS in favour of proprietary voting infrastructure. Glass Lewis is abandoning its standard benchmark policy by 2027, moving to customised voting frameworks. ISS is restructuring toward individualised investor recommendations.
The era of predictable, benchmark-driven voting is ending. Companies can no longer assume a single proxy advisor recommendation will cascade uniformly across their register. Understanding each investor's individual position — not just their proxy advisor's benchmark — is now essential.
Quantified Stewardship Vision
VINCIT QSV cross-references your company's governance profile against every institutional investor and proxy advisor on your shareholder register — producing a register-weighted risk briefing that shows exactly where you stand and what to do about it.
Register-Weighted Intelligence
Not generic benchmarks. Every risk assessment is weighted by your actual shareholder register, showing the real-world impact of each governance position.
Five-Tier Outcome Classification
Nuanced, actionable intelligence beyond simple pass/fail — enabling precise identification of where investor positions sit and what drives them.
Intelligent Cascade & Delegation Modelling
Understands delegation and cascades effectively across market-specific positions, regional and global positions. Also effectively delegates based on investor profiles and the influence proxy advisors have on their voting positions.
Prior AGM to Next AGM — Connection Through the Annual Cycle
A continuous cycle from recording last year's results through strategic engagement to AGM readiness tracking. Nothing falls through the cracks.
From data to decision
VINCIT QSV transforms fragmented governance data into a continuous intelligence cycle — connecting what happened at the last AGM to what needs to happen before the next one.
Capture
Understand the landscapeIngest your shareholder register, governance profile, board composition, and prior AGM voting outcomes into a single unified view. The platform builds a complete picture of where you stand today.
Analyse
Quantify the riskCross-reference your governance positions against the voting policies of every institutional investor and proxy advisor on your register. Identify exactly where opposition will come from, how much of your register is at risk, and which concerns cascade through delegation relationships.
Prioritise
Focus on what mattersSurface the governance areas with the highest register-weighted risk. Distinguish between direct opposition, conditional concerns, and case-by-case positions. Understand which changes would have the greatest impact on shareholder alignment.
Engage
Act with intelligencePrioritise investor and proxy advisor engagement based on register influence, governance concerns, and delegation relationships. Track every interaction with structured sentiment analysis and measure effectiveness over time.
Model
Test before you commitSimulate governance changes — board composition, remuneration structure, policy improvements — and see how each scenario shifts investor positions across your register before making real decisions.
Report
Inform the BoardGenerate governance reports that translate complex stakeholder data into clear, actionable intelligence. Board-ready analysis that connects governance risk to shareholder outcomes.
Institutional-grade data
Every policy extract is sourced verbatim from published investor voting guidelines and proxy advisor benchmark policies — and now paired with six proxy seasons of how those investors actually voted at Australian, UK and European meetings, drawn from SEC Form N-PX filings and official manager disclosures with per-record provenance.
Stated policy, meet revealed behaviour
Policies say what investors intend. Six proxy seasons of actual votes show what they do — and the two rarely read the same. VINCIT QSV holds both, side by side and never merged: roughly one in ten institutional votes at Australian meetings diverges from the board’s recommendation, dissent on remuneration reports ranges from 2% to over 20% depending on the manager, and spill resolutions are opposed by institutions more than 99% of the time.
Sourced from SEC Form N-PX filings across 390+ documents and 80+ fund registrants, plus official manager disclosures — including Norges Bank Investment Management’s complete voting record with per-vote published rationales — aggregated to manager level with per-record provenance. Data-quality gates run on every ingest; the new proxy season loads automatically each August, while official disclosures bring current-season votes as they happen. Observed behaviour also calibrates the platform’s AGM projections and appears in every investor prep brief and board report.
Every pay decision, read against the people who vote on it
VINCIT QSV now holds the most comprehensive remuneration database of the entire ASX300: quantum, plan design, performance measures and director fees, every figure traced to the page of the annual report it came from. No other source sets that data beside investors’ own voting policies, their recorded votes and their published reasons. It answers two questions together. How will the investors on your register read your pay, given what their policies say? And how did those same investors vote at other companies that made a similar change or carried a similar concern?
Who has already done this, and how did investors vote there?
Illustrative data · companies, investors and figures are fictionalHOW THE MEETINGS WENT
3 · WHICH INVESTORS MOVED, AND WHICH DID NOT
4 · WHY, IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Four steps on one screen: the change, what happened at those meetings, which investors vote differently when they see it, and the reasons they gave. Investors B, D and F barely move, so the engagement effort goes to A, C and E. A policy states the intent; a vote at a comparable company shows how it was applied.
Where your pay sits in a peer group you define
Illustrative data · companies, investors and figures are fictionalCEO · 24 peers · Materials, $4bn–$12bn market capitalisation
Band = P25 to P75 · line = median · dot = your company
One clean row per measure: minimum, P25, median, P62.5, P75 and maximum, with a count of how many values are disclosed and how many are derived.
Built for listed companies
VINCIT QSV is designed for governance and stewardship teams at listed companies across all markets.
Boards
Evidence-based governance intelligence to support board decision-making on remuneration, composition, and shareholder engagement strategy.
Company Secretaries & In-House Counsel
Board-ready governance risk briefings with evidence-based analysis of shareholder expectations and AGM readiness tracking.
Investor Relations
Strategic engagement intelligence with register-weighted insights and proxy advisor cascade modelling to prioritise outreach.
Heads of Reward & Remuneration Consultants
Benchmark quantum and plan design against a peer group you define, test pay against performance, and see how investors voted at companies that made the same change. All before the AGM, not after.
Intelligence meets strategic advisory
VINCIT QSV provides critical governance intelligence — but data alone doesn't navigate the nuances of shareholder engagement. Remuneration design, board composition, capital management, sustainability disclosure, proxy advisor dynamics, and the evolving expectations of institutional investors across different markets all require experienced, tailored advice.
That's why VINCIT QSV is backed by strategic advisory through OpenEngagement, an independent corporate governance and shareholder engagement advisory firm. Together, the platform's quantified stewardship intelligence and hands-on advisory expertise ensure issuers have all of the essential insights — and trusted guidance — to navigate their most critical governance moments with confidence.
Platform intelligence to quantify the risk. Strategic advisory to navigate it.
Turn governance risk into stakeholder alignment
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