Voting & engagement

Shareholder proposal targets Papua mine

€4bn fund revises voting guidelines.

Dutch pension giant now excludes 33 firms in total.

More than 15% of share register fails to back BP management.

F&C voted against incoming PPF chair’s role at US mine firm

Shareholders at AGM open door to court action against former Swiss bank chiefs.

Resolutions for improved reporting lodged with two more oil majors.

Two major AGM battles on the horizon

The coal mine investments of Norway’s NOK2,385bn (€280bn) Government Pension Fund are to come under increasing scrutiny from the fund’s Council of Ethics. The Council, an independent body which makes recommendations to the Ministry of Finance, said in its new annual report that it plans to investigate “more closely” the giant fund’s investments in coal […]

APG Asset Management warns it may join shareholder protests over the involvement of oil giants BP and Shell in controversial tar sands projects in Alberta, Canada.