23.04.2015 - Norway's SWF flexes its muscles
Norway's $890bn fund is flexing its muscles in corporate governance matters by revealing it will vote against US power company AES over proxy access. It marks only the second time that the world's largest sovereign wealth fund has revealed its voting intention ahead of a company's annual meeting, a tactic that the Norwegian investor is hoping to use more and more in the future writes the FT's Richard Milne in Oslo. Proxy access – the ability of minority shareholders to nominate their own board directors – is one of the fund's main focus areas. It agreed to back two shareholder proposals on proxy access at AES and vote against two management proposals in its voting intention published on Tuesday, two days before the US company's annual meeting............................................Full Article: Source
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