Press coverage

Malenko, A., & Malenko, N. (2026). Voting choice. The Review of Financial Studies. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhag065

Cites platforms such as iconik that help funds learn about retail investors' preferences, in modeling how funds offer voting choice.

Lund, D. S. (2025). The past, present, and future of proxy voting choice. Journal of Corporation Law, 50(4), 1075-1094. jcl.law.uiowa.edu/articles/2025/07/past-present-and-future-proxy-voting-choice

Describes iconik as a provider that helps asset managers run pass-through voting, from custom policies to vote execution and reporting.

Gramitto Ricci, S. A. (2024). The Vitruvian shareholder. Florida Law Review Forum, 75, 113-131. floridalawreview.com/article/123626

Names iconik as one of the new providers to which shareholders in a pass-through voting fund could delegate their votes.

Haan, S. C. (2024). Delegated corporate voting and the deliberative franchise. Seattle University Law Review, 47(2), 483-510. digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr/vol47/iss2/5

Names iconik among companies building technology that lets shareholders set voting preferences in advance.

Kokkinis, A., & Sergakis, K. (2024). Investor personhood: The case against paternalism and welfarism in corporate law. Journal of Corporate Law Studies, 24(1), 97-136. doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2024.2373463

Describes iconik as a platform that lets advisors' clients vote directly, in a personalized and automated way.

Lipton, A. M. (2024). Will the real shareholder primacy please stand up? [Review of the book The profit motive: Defending shareholder value maximization, by S. M. Bainbridge]. Harvard Law Review, 137(6), 1584-1617. harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-137/will-the-real-shareholder-primacy-please-stand-up

Cites iconik as an example of new technology that makes it easier for retail shareholders to vote and express their preferences.

Shnitser, N. (2024). Worker voice in retirement plan governance. Chicago-Kent Law Review, 99(1), 153-175. lira.bc.edu/downloads/szxaq-cnf32/Worker_Voice_in_Retirement_Plan_Governance.pdf

Cites Haan's description of iconik in a note on pass-through voting in retirement plans.

Fisch, J. E., & Schwartz, J. (2023). Corporate democracy and the intermediary voting dilemma. Texas Law Review, 102(1), 1-64. texaslawreview.org/corporate-democracy-and-the-intermediary-voting-dilemma

Discusses iconik at length as one of the most promising new efforts to engage investors, showing that polling fund investors on their views is feasible.

Gramitto Ricci, S. A. (2026). The Texas fund [Working paper]. SSRN. Forthcoming in Tulane Law Review, 101. doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6468898

Cites iconik's voting services as a way for the shareholders of a proposed pass-through voting fund to vote their values.

Pargendler, M., & Pollman, E. (2026). Engines of external governance (ECGI Law Working Paper No. 910/2026). European Corporate Governance Institute. doi.org/10.67929/ecgi-law-910-2026

Cites coverage of the Sierra Club Foundation's program with iconik as an example of investors adopting a nonprofit's voting positions.

Gramitto Ricci, S. A., & Sautter, C. M. (2026). Corporate disenfranchisement (ECGI Law Working Paper No. 902/2026). European Corporate Governance Institute. doi.org/10.67929/ecgi-law-902-2026

Describes As You Sow's partnership with iconik, a platform that automates proxy voting for retail investors, as a practical tool for retail voting.

Brav, A., Li, T., Lund, D. S., & Pan, Z. (2025). The proxy voting choice revolution (ECGI Law Working Paper No. 875/2025). European Corporate Governance Institute. doi.org/10.67929/ecgi-law-875-2025

Points to iconik's questionnaire-based approach as a model for sorting investors by their preferences.

Gomtsian, S., & Gosling, T. (2025). The emergence of pass-through voting and its implications for shareholder stewardship [Working paper]. SSRN. Forthcoming in Journal of Corporation Law, 52. doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5346524

Lists iconik among the technology companies offering voting platforms for pass-through voting programs.

Griffin, C. N. (2025). Mass corporate governance [Working paper]. SSRN. Forthcoming in Washington University Law Review, 103. doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5227132

Cites iconik as existing technology that learns and applies an investor's governance preferences.

Hart, O., Landemore, H., & Zingales, L. (2024). How to implement shareholder democracy (New Working Paper Series No. 350). Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, University of Chicago Booth School of Business. hdl.handle.net/10419/307593

Cites iconik's personalized voting guidelines as a way past the generic options of pass-through voting programs.

Fisch, J. E. (2025, July 1). Remarks by Jill Fisch before the Investor Advisory Committee of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/07/01/remarks-by-jill-fisch-before-the-investor-advisory-committee-of-the-u-s-securities-and-exchange-commission

Uses iconik as an example of tools that make retail voting easier, and discusses the limits of voting from preset preferences.

Minow, N. (2025, April 29). Testimony before the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. democrats-financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hhrg-119-ba16-wstate-minown-20250429.pdf

Nell Minow testifies that she uses iconik to vote her own proxies and calls it "very impressive."

The Shareholder Commons. (2024). Portfolios on the ballot 2024: Systems-first voting in 2024. theshareholdercommons.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PORTFOLIOS-ON-THE-BALLOT-2024.pdf

Names iconik as the commercial service that lets investors build a voting policy from the guide's flagged proposals, and notes the two aren't affiliated.

Argouges, A. (2022, March 15). The promise of retail shareholder power. In Proxy preview 2022. As You Sow, Proxy Impact, and Sustainable Investments Institute. proxypreview.org/2022/contributor-articles-blog/the-promise-of-retail-shareholder-power

Lists iconik among retail shareholder engagement platforms.

Sawyer, M. G., Treviño, M., & Boehmke, L. (2022, February 19). 2021 trends in shareholder activism. Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/02/19/2021-trends-in-shareholder-activism

Sullivan & Cromwell's review of 2021 notes iconik's launch as an app for pooling retail shareholder votes.