Home › Asset managers › Compare 2024-2025 › Vanguard vs Brighthouse

Vanguard vs Brighthouse: how alike they voted, 2024-2025

90.7% When both took a single position, they voted the same way on 90.7% of 58,805 items (53,355 the same, 5,450 different). 14,597 items where at least one of them split its funds are listed separately below. Both voted on 73,402 items in all.

Note on Brighthouse: its funds did not all vote the same way on 14.7% of the 97,681 ballot items it voted. Those items are not in the percentage above; the ones it shares with this pair are listed under “Split votes”.

Vanguard 2024-2025 · Brighthouse 2024-2025 · Download the item list (CSV)

By who put the item on the ballot. “Same position” = Same / (Same + Differ); split items are not in it. “Fund-level” is a second view over all common items: the chance that a fund of each manager, picked at random, voted the same way, which gives partial credit where a manager split.
	Common items	Same	Differ	Split (not in %)	Same position	Fund-level
All ballot items	73,402	53,355	5,450	14,597	90.7%	85.0%
Board proposals	62,498	43,995	5,086	13,417	89.6%	83.9%
E&S shareholder proposals	294	13	7	274	65.0%	42.9%
Other items	10,610	9,347	357	906	96.3%	92.7%

Where they did not vote alike

Everything Voted differently Split votes

All ballot items Board proposals E&S shareholder proposals Other items

7 items. “Voted differently”: each manager’s funds all voted one way, and the two ways differ. “Split”: at least one manager’s funds did not all vote the same way.

Company	Meeting	Proposal	On the ballot from	Board recommended	Vanguard	Brighthouse
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA	April 8, 2025	Shareholder Proposal Regarding Racial Equity Audit Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	Shareholder (E&S)	Against	AGAINST 1 fund	FOR 1 fund
LYFT INC.	June 5, 2025	Stockholder proposal regarding an assessment of Lyft's use of artificial intelligence, if properly presented at the meeting. Human Rights or Human Capital/workforce	Shareholder (E&S)	Contested	AGAINST 24 funds	ABSTAIN 5 funds
PENN ENTERTAINMENT INC.	June 17, 2025	Advisory vote on a shareholder proposal regarding commissioning of a report on the effects of a company-wide non-smoking policy. Other Social Issues	Shareholder (E&S)	Contested	AGAINST 16 funds	FOR 1 fund
PENN ENTERTAINMENT INC.	June 17, 2025	The Company's proposal to approve, on an advisory basis, the commissioning of a report on the effects of a company-wide non-smoking policy. Other Social Issues	Shareholder (E&S)	Contested	AGAINST 1 fund	ABSTAIN 3 funds
RIO TINTO PLC	April 3, 2025	SHP Requesting Unification Review Other Social Issues	Shareholder (E&S)	Against	AGAINST 6 funds	FOR 1 fund
SMITH & WESSON BRANDS INC.	September 17, 2024	A stockholder proposal (human rights impact assessment); Human Rights or Human Capital/workforce	Shareholder (E&S)	Against	AGAINST 11 funds	FOR 1 fund
SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS HOLDINGS INC.	May 23, 2025	The Stockholder Proposal titled "Transparency in Political Spending" Other Social Issues	Shareholder (E&S)	Against	AGAINST 13 funds	ABSTAIN 2 funds

← All 20 managers, 2024-2025

How items are matched and positions counted: see the comparison table and the methodology. Built October 13, 2026 from SEC Form N-PX filings.