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Fidelity Advisor Health Care Fund proxy voting record
Fidelity Advisor Series Vii files this fund's proxy votes with the SEC once a year. This is what it did with the shares your retirement savings paid for.
SourceProxy-voting record filed by Fidelity Advisor Series Vii on 2025-08-28 · open the filing · vote table (ProxyVotingTable.xml, 5.1 MB)
How it voted, by issue
Proposals are grouped by the subject the filer itself recorded. On management's own executive pay resolutions, this fund voted in favour 88.1% of the time across 67 votes.
| Issue | Proposals faced | Backed | Share backed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate & environment | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Workers & human rights | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Pay equity & inclusion | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Executive pay | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Corporate governance | 8 | 2 | 25% |
| Other social issues | 2 | 1 | 50% |
Ballots it voted
Centene Corporation · 13 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Centene publish a fuller account of its emissions and how it plans to cut them?
Shareholders asked the company to disclose its greenhouse gas emissions more completely, or to have its reduction targets independently assessed, so that the plan can be checked rather than taken on trust.
AGAINST Fidelity Advisor Health Care Fund voted with 435,000 shares
“STOCKHOLDER PROPOSAL TO DISCLOSE PLAN TO REDUCE TOTAL CONTRIBUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceFidelity Advisor Series Vii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0000275309-25-000227 · series S000005329 · open the filing
Centene Corporation · 13 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Centene publish a fuller account of its emissions and how it plans to cut them?
Shareholders asked the company to disclose its greenhouse gas emissions more completely, or to have its reduction targets independently assessed, so that the plan can be checked rather than taken on trust.
AGAINST Fidelity Advisor Health Care Fund voted with 435,000 shares
“STOCKHOLDER PROPOSAL FOR REPORT ON CLIMATE RISK TO RETIREMENT INVESTMENTS.”
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SourceFidelity Advisor Series Vii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0000275309-25-000227 · series S000005329 · open the filing
Gilead Sciences, Inc. · 7 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should Gilead Sciences assess the human rights risks its own operations create?
Shareholders asked for an assessment of the human rights risks arising from the company’s operations and business relationships, and for the findings to be published.
AGAINST Fidelity Advisor Health Care Fund voted with 680,000 shares
“To vote on a stockholder proposal requesting a comprehensive human rights policy and human rights due diligence process, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting.”
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SourceFidelity Advisor Series Vii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0000275309-25-000227 · series S000005329 · open the filing
Merck & Co., Inc. · 27 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should Merck & assess the human rights risks its own operations create?
Shareholders asked for an assessment of the human rights risks arising from the company’s operations and business relationships, and for the findings to be published.
AGAINST Fidelity Advisor Health Care Fund voted with 385,000 shares
“Shareholder proposal regarding a human rights impact assessment.”
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SourceFidelity Advisor Series Vii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0000275309-25-000227 · series S000005329 · open the filing
Gilead Sciences, Inc. · 7 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Should the gap between Gilead Sciences’s top executive pay and its typical worker’s pay count for something?
Shareholders asked the company to disclose the ratio between its highest-paid executive and its median employee — and, in the versions filed as a “pay ratio factor”, to take that ratio into account when the board sets executive pay rather than treating it as a footnote.
AGAINST Fidelity Advisor Health Care Fund voted with 680,000 shares
“To vote on a stockholder proposal requesting the CEO pay ratio factor be included in the Company's executive compensation programs, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceFidelity Advisor Series Vii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0000275309-25-000227 · series S000005329 · open the filing
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated · 2 June 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Should shareholders get a vote before UnitedHealth Group Incorporated pays a departing executive?
Shareholders asked the company to seek shareholder approval for any severance package to a senior executive above a set multiple of salary and bonus — so that very large exit payments cannot be agreed by the board alone.
AGAINST Fidelity Advisor Health Care Fund voted with 880,000 shares
“If properly presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, the shareholder proposal requesting a shareholder vote regarding excessive golden parachutes.”
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SourceFidelity Advisor Series Vii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0000275309-25-000227 · series S000005329 · open the filing
Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 1 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
The stockholder proposal purportedly "to improve the executive compensation program,"
AGAINST Fidelity Advisor Health Care Fund voted with 90,000 shares
“The stockholder proposal purportedly "to improve the executive compensation program," if properly presented at the Annual Meeting.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceFidelity Advisor Series Vii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0000275309-25-000227 · series S000005329 · open the filing
Boston Scientific Corporation · 1 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder
Should a simple majority be enough to pass a measure at Boston Scientific?
Shareholders asked the company to replace its supermajority voting requirements with a simple majority, so that a measure supported by most shares actually carries.
FOR Fidelity Advisor Health Care Fund voted with 4,260,000 shares
“Stockholder proposal titled "Support Simple Majority Vote."”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceFidelity Advisor Series Vii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0000275309-25-000227 · series S000005329 · open the filing
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