Glass Lewis is the leading provider of independent, global proxy research and operator of the world’s most accurate and reliable proxy voting system, ViewPoint.

Hundreds of institutional investors from across the globe rely on Glass Lewis’ objective, cogent analysis of corporate governance issues, economic and financial matters and M&A transactions that come before shareholders for a vote. Glass Lewis has demonstrated its insight and foresight on scores of issues at hundreds of companies across the globe. Glass Lewis' proxy research service, called ProxyPaper, covers more than 15,000 public companies in 70 countries.

Glass Lewis' ViewPoint voting system is built on the bedrock principle that proxy votes matter and that shareholders should expect their votes to be transmitted accurately and counted. The system and the professional services provided by Glass Lewis ensure that institutions receive all proxies they are entitled to vote; that those proxies are instructed properly, in accordance with the investor’s policy; and that votes are transmitted accurately. And, of course, the system provides a wide range of reporting options to ensure the investor can fulfill its regulatory, fiduciary and contractual obligations.

• Fully independent and objective research; we do not provide consulting services to public companies and can therefore focus solely on the best interests of investors;
• Focused on the economic and financial consequences of voting, therefore, improving medium- to long-term value and mitigating risk at public companies;
• Team of highly skilled professionals; more than 70% of our research analysts hold graduate degrees in fields relevant to our research;
• Proprietary (patent-pending) technology ensures that each institution has their policy accurately applied to each ballot, in a timely fashion;
• Research analysts are available to clients for questions or assistance on specific companies or meetings or for general corporate governance topics;
• Global presence, with offices in Asia, Australia, North America and Europe;
• We serve a large client base, including institutions from every segment of the investment spectrum (institutional money managers, mutual funds, hedge funds, public pension funds, labor union funds, SRI managers and religious pension funds, among others);
• Our voting services and online platform are substantially more accurate, transparent, auditable and flexible than other systems in the market;
• Our clients are provided with extensive auditing and compliance tools online to verify that votes are being accurately cast.