Home › Asset managers › Compare 2025-2026 › Vanguard vs Brighthouse

Vanguard vs Brighthouse: how alike they voted, 2025-2026

88.9% When both took a single position, they voted the same way on 88.9% of 62,145 items (55,261 the same, 6,884 different). 14,643 items where at least one of them split its funds are listed separately below. Both voted on 76,788 items in all.

Note on Brighthouse: its funds did not all vote the same way on 12.0% of the 120,192 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 2025-2026 · Brighthouse 2025-2026 · 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	76,788	55,261	6,884	14,643	88.9%	82.8%
Board proposals	66,203	46,233	6,439	13,531	87.8%	81.6%
E&S shareholder proposals	210	15	3	192	83.3%	44.0%
Other items	10,375	9,013	442	920	95.3%	91.3%

Where they did not vote alike

Everything Voted differently Split votes

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

3 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
PARAMOUNT GLOBAL	July 2, 2025	A stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the annual meeting, requesting that the Company issue a report detailing the potential risks associated with omitting "viewpoint" and "ideology" from our equal employment opportunity policy. Corporate Governance	Shareholder (E&S)	Against	AGAINST 10 funds	ABSTAIN 1 fund
Royal Bank of Canada	April 9, 2026	Shareholder Proposal Regarding Report on Use of Artificial Intelligence Other Social Issues	Shareholder (E&S)	Against	FOR 1 fund	AGAINST 1 fund
The Bank of Nova Scotia	April 14, 2026	Shareholder Proposal Regarding Report on Use of Artificial Intelligence Other Social Issues	Shareholder (E&S)	Against	FOR 2 funds	AGAINST 1 fund

← All 20 managers, 2025-2026

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