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Utilities Fund proxy voting record

American Century Quantitative Equity 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 American Century Quantitative Equity Funds on 2025-08-27 · open the filing · vote table (npxacqef2025.xml, 7.9 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 60.7% of the time across 28 votes.

IssueProposals facedBackedShare backed
Climate & environment600%
Executive pay200%
Corporate governance7685.7%

Ballots it voted

Dominion Energy, Inc. · 7 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment

Regarding Eliminating Non-Carbon Emitting Generation Goals in Executive Pay Incentives

AGAINST  Utilities Fund voted with 265,852 shares

“Shareholder Proposal Regarding Eliminating Non-Carbon Emitting Generation Goals in Executive Pay Incentives”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.

SourceAmerican Century Quantitative Equity Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0000827060-25-000069 · series S000005982 · open the filing

Duke Energy Corporation · 1 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment

Should Duke Energy 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  Utilities Fund voted with 203,863 shares

“Shareholder proposal regarding a net-zero audit”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.

SourceAmerican Century Quantitative Equity Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0000827060-25-000069 · series S000005982 · open the filing

Edison International · 24 April 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay

Should shareholders get a vote before Edison International 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  Utilities Fund voted with 83,548 shares

“Shareholder Proposal Regarding Shareholder Approval of Certain Severance Pay Arrangements”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.

SourceAmerican Century Quantitative Equity Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0000827060-25-000069 · series S000005982 · open the filing

The AES Corporation · 9 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay

Should AES 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  Utilities Fund voted with 566,923 shares

“If Properly Presented, to Vote on a Non-Binding Stockholder Proposal to Amend the Company Policy on Recoupment of Incentive Pay.”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.

SourceAmerican Century Quantitative Equity Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0000827060-25-000069 · series S000005982 · open the filing

Duke Energy Corporation · 1 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder

Should a simple majority be enough to pass a measure at Duke Energy?

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  Utilities Fund voted with 203,863 shares

“Shareholder proposal regarding support simple majority vote”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.

SourceAmerican Century Quantitative Equity Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0000827060-25-000069 · series S000005982 · open the filing

Eversource Energy · 1 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder

Should the person who runs Eversource Energy 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  Utilities Fund voted with 155,425 shares

“Vote on a shareholder proposal titled "Support an Independent Board Chairman," if properly brought before the meeting.”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.

SourceAmerican Century Quantitative Equity Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0000827060-25-000069 · series S000005982 · open the filing

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