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First Eagle Overseas Fund (SGOVX) proxy voting record 2026

Three of its ballots from this season. Vote first, then see what it did with the shares your savings paid for.

The question on the ballot

As filed

First Eagle Funds 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 First Eagle Funds on 2026-08-28 · open the filing · vote table (ProxyVotingTable.xml, 8.2 MB)

TickersSGOVX (Class A), SGOIX (Class I), FESOX (Class C), EAROX (Class R3), FIORX (Class R4), FEROX (Class R5), FEORX (Class R6), FEOTX (Class T) · share classes of one fund, with one proxy-voting record · as listed in its latest SEC filing of proxy votes

How it voted, by issue

Fund companies sometimes file the same proposal under different subjects. So that funds can be compared, each proposal is counted under the subject most of the filings we read gave it, the same for every fund on this site. On management's own executive pay resolutions, this fund voted in favour 94.4% of the time across 36 votes.

IssueProposals facedBackedShare backed
Climate & environment300%
Corporate governance500%

Ballots it voted

Orkla ASA · 23 April 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment

Should Orkla ASA report on the single-use plastic it puts into the world?

Shareholders asked for a report on how much single-use plastic packaging the company uses, the risks that creates as regulation tightens, and what it plans to do to reduce it.

AGAINST  First Eagle Overseas Fund voted with 13,060,096 shares

“Approve Proposal to Recognize Social Responsibility for Plastic Waste Landfill in Flisa”

SourceFirst Eagle Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-28 · accession 0000930413-26-002761 · series S000011212 · open the filing

Power Corporation of Canada · 13 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment

Should Power Corporation of Canada 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  First Eagle Overseas Fund voted with 4,200,347 shares

“SP 2: Advisory Vote on Environmental Policies”

SourceFirst Eagle Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-28 · accession 0000930413-26-002761 · series S000011212 · open the filing

Sompo Holdings, Inc. · 22 June 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder

Should the person who runs Sompo Holdings also chair the board that supervises them?

Shareholders asked the company to require that the chair of the board be an independent director rather than the chief executive, so that the body overseeing management is not led by the person being overseen.

AGAINST  First Eagle Overseas Fund voted with 3,779,100 shares

“Amend Articles to Appoint Outside Director as Chairman of the Board”

SourceFirst Eagle Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-28 · accession 0000930413-26-002761 · series S000011212 · open the filing

Svenska Handelsbanken AB · 25 March 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder

Approve Proposal Regarding Development and Issuance of Personal Electronical IDs Consisting of QR Codes with Short Validity Periods

AGAINST  First Eagle Overseas Fund voted with 5,974,046 shares

“Approve Proposal Regarding Development and Issuance of Personal Electronical IDs Consisting of QR Codes with Short Validity Periods”

SourceFirst Eagle Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-28 · accession 0000930413-26-002761 · series S000011212 · open the filing

Other funds First Eagle Funds votes

The same filer reports these alongside this one, in the same annual filing.

First Eagle Global Balanced Fund96.1% for exec payFirst Eagle Global Fund94.3% for exec payFirst Eagle Global Real Assets Fund94.9% for exec payFirst Eagle Rising Dividend Fund100% for exec payFirst Eagle Small Cap Opportunity Fund91% for exec payFirst Eagle U.S. Fund93.2% for exec pay

No 401(k) plan we index offers this fund. Its record is here because the fund files it with the SEC, as every fund must: whoever holds it, in an IRA, a brokerage account or a plan we have not indexed, the fund votes those shares as shown on this page.

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