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Global Multi-Strategy Fund (PMSAX) 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
Principal 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 Principal Funds on 2026-08-27 · open the filing · vote table (npxPFI831-81107572voterecord.xml, 22 MB)
TickersPMSAX (Class A), PSMIX (Institutional Class), PGLSX (R-6) · 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. Counted by this fund’s own filing alone, 18 of its 303 shareholder proposals would sit under a different issue, or under none. On management's own executive pay resolutions, this fund voted in favour 85.9% of the time across 439 votes.
| Issue | Proposals faced | Backed | Share backed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate & environment | 69 | 4 | 5.8% |
| Workers & human rights | 18 | 1 | 5.6% |
| Pay equity & inclusion | 7 | 2 | 28.6% |
| Executive pay | 11 | 4 | 36.4% |
| Corporate governance | 140 | 82 | 58.6% |
| Other social issues | 53 | 10 | 18.9% |
On 135 of the 8,671 ballot items in its filing, 20 of them shareholder proposals, part of this fund’s shares was cast a different way from the rest: 68,675 shares in all, 0.13% of the shares it voted. Every figure here counts the way most of its shares were cast.
Its filing lists 802 ballot items, 66 of them shareholder proposals, more than once, with different share counts (1,604 rows in all): parts of this fund’s shares were voted separately. Each such item is counted once here, with all of its shares, the way most of them were cast.
Ballots it voted
Verizon Communications Inc. · 21 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Verizon Communications 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 Global Multi-Strategy Fund voted with 20,530 shares
“Board oversight of material issues related to climate change”
SourcePrincipal Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000898745-26-000858 · series S000033960 · open the filing
The Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated · 25 June 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated 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 Global Multi-Strategy Fund voted with 8,100 shares
“Shareholder Proposal Regarding Decarbonization of Operations and Supply Chain”
SourcePrincipal Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000898745-26-000858 · series S000033960 · open the filing
PepsiCo, Inc. · 6 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should PepsiCo 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 Global Multi-Strategy Fund voted with 2,854 shares
“Shareholder Proposal - Report on Human Rights Oversight.”
SourcePrincipal Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000898745-26-000858 · series S000033960 · open the filing
Microsoft Corporation · 5 December 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should Microsoft 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 Global Multi-Strategy Fund voted with 2,034 shares; the filing records 311 more cast another way on this item
“Report on Data Operations in Human Rights Hotspots”
SourcePrincipal Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000898745-26-000858 · series S000033960 · open the filing
The Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated · 25 June 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Should Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated disclose, or change, who sits on its board?
Shareholders asked the company to publish a board skills-and-diversity matrix, or to commit to a minimum representation of women among its directors.
AGAINST Global Multi-Strategy Fund voted with 8,100 shares
“Shareholder Proposal Regarding Gender Diversity Targets”
SourcePrincipal Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000898745-26-000858 · series S000033960 · open the filing
The Coca-Cola Company · 29 April 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Should Coca-Cola publish what its inclusion policies actually do for its workforce?
Shareholders asked for a report on the company’s LGBTQIA+ equity and inclusion efforts within its human capital management strategy — what the policies are, how they are measured, and what they have changed for employees.
AGAINST Global Multi-Strategy Fund voted with 1,711 shares
“Vote on a shareowner proposal requesting a report on the extent of the Company's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts”
SourcePrincipal Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000898745-26-000858 · series S000033960 · open the filing
HSBC Holdings plc · 8 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Should HSBC Holdings be able to take back pay awarded on results that turn out to be wrong?
Shareholders asked the board to strengthen its clawback policy, so that bonuses and share awards can be recovered when they were earned on misstated results or on conduct that later causes the company harm.
AGAINST Global Multi-Strategy Fund voted with 19,190 shares
“Shareholder requisitioned resolution: Midland Clawback Campaign 1”
SourcePrincipal Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000898745-26-000858 · series S000033960 · open the filing
The Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated · 25 June 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Regarding Individual Compensation Disclosure
AGAINST Global Multi-Strategy Fund voted with 8,100 shares
“Shareholder Proposal Regarding Individual Compensation Disclosure”
SourcePrincipal Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-27 · accession 0000898745-26-000858 · series S000033960 · open the filing
Other funds Principal Funds votes
The same filer reports these alongside this one, in the same annual filing.
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.