Benchmarking
At rezonanz, benchmarking is about more than peer comparison — it’s about driving progress.
Our benchmarking shows how institutional investors compare on proxy voting and engagement. It’s not about agreement with a single benchmark — it’s about understanding how an individual investor's decisions stack up against peers, and where there's room to improve. Whether you’re reviewing a Voting for Sustainability score, assessing Say-on-Pay decisions, or mapping engagement overlaps, our benchmarking helps raise the bar for better stewardship.
Voting for Sustainability
Our most visible ranking translates complex proxy voting records into a clear, standardized 0–1 score.
What it shows:
How an investor votes on sustainability-related management and shareholder proposals, compared to their peers.
Why it matters:
✦ Even 20% support for a shareholder proposal can shift corporate strategy. That’s why relative positioning — not just binary agreement — is critical.
✦ This ranking helps clients, beneficiaries, and companies understand where an investor really stands on sustainability issues.
Better Benchmarking for Manager Monitoring
Voting for Sustainability is one use case — but our broader benchmarking system goes much further.
We track and compare all types of proxy votes to support more informed monitoring and delegation.
What we offer:
✦ Remuneration Benchmarking
Assess how asset managers vote on Say-on-Pay across hundreds of companies — a key signal of governance oversight.
✦ Custom Benchmarks for Asset Owners
Use your own voting record as the benchmark to evaluate delegated managers’ alignment with your priorities.
Why it’s different:
Our benchmarking system is customizable. We don’t rely on a single score — we provide structured comparisons that reflect what you already do, and show where your managers could do better.
Engagement Benchmarking
Engagement data is often siloed and anecdotal. We make it visible, comparable, and strategic. Through our annual Collective Insight initiative, we benchmark:
✦ Themes: Are you focused where others are?
✦ Targets: Which companies are being engaged, and which aren't?
✦ Overlap: Where could duplication be avoided — or coalitions built?
What clients say:
“Increased transparency on activity is a cornerstone of stewardship… Knowing where others are engaging — or not — helps complete the macro-engagement picture. It allows us to focus time, avoid duplication, and act more strategically.”
— Collective Insight participant, 2024
Benchmarking Use Case: Our "Voting for Sustainability" Ranking
We’re proud to lead the way with our global “Voting for Sustainability” ranking, our signature application of our benchmarking methodology. We analyze the voting records of more than 140 asset managers and pension funds at company meetings worldwide to benchmark them against sustainability standards (a composite set of sustainability experts’ and advocates’ positions).
The ranking outputs clarifies how each investor’s proxy voting stacks up against peers, enabling transparent comparison of leaders and laggards and better-informed decision-making. This demonstrates how our benchmarking service can provide a comprehensive, data-driven view of the alignment between voting behaviors and sustainability goals.
Visit our Voting for Sustainability page to learn more about our pioneering investor ranking against sustainability leaders.
rezonanz brings transparency to the table—at scale.
We track and analyze institutional voting records from over 200 investors, covering more than 28,000 companies worldwide. By aggregating fragmented disclosures and we're bringing unparalleled visibility and comparability into an opaque but powerful area of finance.
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amplifying investors' voices to enable better decisions