You Own Wall Street › Funds › MFS Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Portfolio
MFS Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Portfolio proxy voting record
Mfs Variable Insurance Trust Ii 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 Mfs Variable Insurance Trust Ii on 2025-08-28 · open the filing · vote table (ProxyVotingTable.xml, 14 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 97.2% of the time across 36 votes.
| Issue | Proposals faced | Backed | Share backed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate & environment | 19 | 0 | 0% |
| Workers & human rights | 5 | 1 | 20% |
| Pay equity & inclusion | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Executive pay | 3 | 0 | 0% |
| Corporate governance | 14 | 6 | 42.9% |
| Other social issues | 15 | 5 | 33.3% |
Ballots it voted
NIKE, Inc. · 10 September 2024 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Environmental Targets
AGAINST MFS Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Portfolio voted with 175,731 shares
“To consider a shareholder proposal regarding Environmental Targets, if properly presented at the meeting.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceMfs Variable Insurance Trust Ii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0001104659-25-084739 · series S000002639 · open the filing
Alphabet Inc. · 6 June 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Alphabet 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 MFS Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Portfolio voted with 148,187 shares
“Stockholder proposal regarding an enhanced disclosure on climate goals”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceMfs Variable Insurance Trust Ii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0001104659-25-084739 · series S000002639 · open the filing
Microsoft Corporation · 10 December 2024 · 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 MFS Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Portfolio voted with 295,248 shares
“Report on Data Operations in Human Rights Hotspots”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceMfs Variable Insurance Trust Ii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0001104659-25-084739 · series S000002639 · open the filing
NIKE, Inc. · 10 September 2024 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should the workers in Nike’s supply chain be the ones who enforce its labour standards?
Shareholders asked the company to assess adopting a worker-driven model of social responsibility: standards written with the workers who are affected, enforced through binding agreements with consequences for suppliers, and monitored by workers themselves rather than by an audit firm the company hires.
AGAINST MFS Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Portfolio voted with 175,731 shares
“To consider a shareholder proposal regarding Worker-Driven Social Responsibility, if properly presented at the meeting.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceMfs Variable Insurance Trust Ii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0001104659-25-084739 · series S000002639 · open the filing
NIKE, Inc. · 10 September 2024 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Should Nike publish the raw pay gap between its workers by gender and race?
Shareholders asked for “unadjusted” median pay gap figures — the plain difference between what women and men, and white and non-white employees, are paid across the whole company. Companies usually publish an adjusted number instead, which compares people in the same role and so cannot show whether one group is concentrated in the lower-paid roles.
AGAINST MFS Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Portfolio voted with 175,731 shares
“To consider a shareholder proposal regarding Supplemental Pay Equity Disclosure, if properly presented at the meeting.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceMfs Variable Insurance Trust Ii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0001104659-25-084739 · series S000002639 · open the filing
PepsiCo, Inc. · 7 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Should an independent auditor examine how PepsiCo affects civil rights?
Shareholders asked the board to commission an independent, third-party audit of the company’s impact on civil rights and racial equity — its workforce, its customers and the communities it operates in — and to publish what the auditor finds.
AGAINST MFS Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Portfolio voted with 115,611 shares
“Shareholder Proposal - Third-Party Racial Equity Audit.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceMfs Variable Insurance Trust Ii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0001104659-25-084739 · series S000002639 · open the filing
Fiserv, Inc. · 14 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Should Fiserv 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 MFS Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Portfolio voted with 70,867 shares
“Shareholder proposal requesting amendments to the Fiserv, Inc. Compensation Recoupment Policy.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceMfs Variable Insurance Trust Ii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0001104659-25-084739 · series S000002639 · open the filing
Moody's Corporation · 15 April 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Should shareholders get a vote before Moody's 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 MFS Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Portfolio voted with 26,599 shares
“Stockholder proposal requesting stockholder ratification of certain executive severance arrangements.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceMfs Variable Insurance Trust Ii, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-28 · accession 0001104659-25-084739 · series S000002639 · open the filing
Retirement plans that offer it
Vote these ballots yourself
See how you would have voted, then what this fund did — one card at a time. Open the ballot deck →