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2026 Hong Kong AGM Intelligence Report
Gain key insights from the 2026 annual meeting season and prepare for your next meeting
As annual meeting practices continue to evolve, Computershare’s 2026 US Annual Meetings Report brings together data and trends from more than 1,000 Computershare-supported US meetings to help you prepare for your next annual meeting. Explore actionable insights and benchmarking data from the US and around the globe, shaped by regulatory changes, market shifts, technology adoption and developments affecting governance and shareholder engagement.
What you’ll learn from the 2026 report
Meeting formats and trends: Explore in-person, virtual and hybrid meeting formats, alongside new voting methods and trends. Among Computershare-supported US meetings, 71% were in-person, 27% virtual and 2% hybrid.- Shifts in ESG and anti-ESG proposals: Examine the decline in environmental and social proposal activity, record-low investor support for environmental and social proposals, and the counterproposals shaping the 2026 proxy season.
- The emergence of AI governance: Learn how AI moved from a developing talking point to a mainstream proxy agenda item, including proposals concerning workforce displacement and copyright liabilities.
- The impact of SEC policy changes: Understand the report’s discussion of shareholder proposal exclusions under Rule 14a-8 and the shift away from substantive no-action review.
Meeting regulations around the globe
Explore recent regulatory and legislative developments affecting in-person, virtual and hybrid annual meetings across jurisdictions. The report also includes global meeting-format benchmarks to help put US trends in context.
Comprehensive annual meeting services
Computershare provides a range of annual general meeting services designed to fulfil every stage of an annual meeting cycle, tailored to your company’s unique needs.
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