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Washington

Washington has one main public pension fund administrator, DRS:

The DRS advisory committee represents all eligible public and local employees and consists of 15 members: All are nominated by members and are appointed by the DRS director.
The Washington State Investment Council administers the system’s assets and discloses its specific proxy voting records on this website.

The first table shows the aggregated proxy voting records of the state’s asset managers, who manage the pension’s stock market portfolio either through mutual funds or ETFs, and are therefore exercising proxy voting privileges as well. The second table shows the state’s publicly disclosed proxy voting records for public securities that it directly owns through pension fund portfolios. Both of these tables are necessary to reflect an accurate and comprehensive picture of the state’s proxy voting records.

By Asset Manager

BlackRock Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

7%

Evercore Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

38%

Goldman Sachs Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

6%

UBS Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

48%

Virtus Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

47%

RBC Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

37%

Credit Suisse Funds

Percentage of times Mgr. voted “for” pro-ESG proposals:

0%

Asset Manager Voting

Pro-ESG

13.7%

Anti-ESG

1.1%

Anti-Fossil Fuels

16%

Anti-Pollution/Waste

15%

Animal Rights

7%

DEI

13%

Weapons/Defense

9%

Human Rights

16%

Income Equality

15%

Political Speech/Lobbying Spending

17%

Health Care

7%

Race/Gender targets on Board

17%

Non-Pecuniary Corporate Purpose

5%

ESG-Focused Governance

7%

Abortion

7%

Pro-Fossil Fuel

1%

Equality not DEI

1%

Controversial Cause Support

2%

Geopolitical Rivals/China

1%

State Voting

Pro-ESG

43%

Anti-ESG

0%

Anti-Fossil Fuels

27%

Anti-Pollution/Waste

30%

Animal Rights

0%

DEI

52%

Weapons/Defense

20%

Human Rights

62%

Income Equality

38%

Political Speech/Lobbying Spending

69%

Health Care

15%

Race/Gender targets on Boards

100%

Non-Pecuniary Corporate Purpose

86%

ESG-Focused Governance

22%

Abortion

0%

Pro-Fossil Fuel

0%

Equality not DEI

0%

Controversial Cause Support

0%

Geopolitical Rivals/China

0%

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