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Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund proxy voting record

Vanguard Chester 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 Vanguard Chester Funds on 2025-08-27 · open the filing · vote table (ProxyVotingTable.xml, 0.1 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 91.5% of the time across 3,933 votes.

IssueProposals facedBackedShare backed
Climate & environment23600%
Workers & human rights4000%
Pay equity & inclusion3100%
Executive pay1524730.9%
Corporate governance95138540.5%
Other social issues8300%

What it holds

The largest positions this fund reported, as a share of the fund. Your slice of each is that percentage of your balance.

Company% of fund
Vanguard Cmt Funds-Vanguard Market Liquidity Fund2.51%
NVIDIA Corp2.22%
Apple Inc2.06%
Alphabet Inc1.66%
Microsoft Corp1.52%
Amazon.com Inc1.11%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd0.95%
Broadcom Inc0.81%
Meta Platforms Inc0.69%
French Republic Government Bond OAT0.61%
Tesla Inc0.58%
Berkshire Hathaway Inc0.47%

SourcePortfolio holdings as reported by the fund for 2026-03-31 · open the filing

Ballots it voted

Amazon.com, Inc. · 21 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment

Should Amazon.com 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  Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund voted with 301,111,349 shares

“SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL REQUESTING ALTERNATIVE EMISSIONS REPORTING”

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.

SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083473 · series S000002848 · open the filing

Amazon.com, Inc. · 21 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment

Should Amazon.com report what its data centres do to its climate commitments?

Shareholders asked for a report on the electricity and water its data-centre build-out consumes, and on whether the growth in that demand can be squared with the emissions targets the company has already committed to.

AGAINST  Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund voted with 301,111,349 shares

“SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL REQUESTING ADDITIONAL REPORTING ON IMPACT OF DATA CENTERS ON CLIMATE COMMITMENTS”

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.

SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083473 · series S000002848 · open the filing

Amazon.com, Inc. · 21 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights

Should Amazon.com publish a report on working conditions inside its warehouses?

Shareholders asked the board to commission and publish a report on working conditions in the company’s warehouses — injury and illness rates, the effect of productivity quotas and the pace of work, and how the company’s own practices compare with what it says publicly.

AGAINST  Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund voted with 301,111,349 shares

“SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL REQUESTING A REPORT ON WAREHOUSE WORKING CONDITIONS”

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.

SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083473 · series S000002848 · 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  Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund voted with 235,610,366 shares

“Report on Data Operations in Human Rights Hotspots”

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.

SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083473 · series S000002848 · open the filing

Walmart Inc. · 5 June 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion

Should an independent auditor examine how Walmart 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  Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund voted with 140,999,365 shares

“Racial Equity 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.

SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083473 · series S000002848 · open the filing

The Procter & Gamble Company · 8 October 2024 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion

Should Procter & Gamble 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  Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund voted with 74,601,602 shares

“Shareholder Proposal - Pay Gap Reporting”

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.

SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083473 · series S000002848 · open the filing

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. · 19 June 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay

Approve Stock Option Plan

AGAINST  Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund voted with 394,619,075 shares

“Approve Stock Option Plan”

The vote row as recorded in the filing

SEC.gov will not render a vote table this large, so this row is drawn into the same layout EDGAR uses, from the entry in the filing. Every value is copied from it.

SourceVanguard Star Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083661 · series S000002932 · open the filing

Pfizer Inc. · 24 April 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay

Should shareholders get a vote before Pfizer 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  Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund voted with 178,723,996 shares

“Shareholder Vote Regarding Golden Parachutes”

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.

SourceVanguard Index Funds, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083473 · series S000002848 · open the filing

Other funds Vanguard Chester Funds votes

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

Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 Fund91.5% for exec payVanguard Target Retirement 2035 Fund91.5% for exec payVanguard Target Retirement 2040 Fund91.5% for exec payVanguard Target Retirement 2045 Fund91.5% for exec payVanguard Target Retirement Income Fund91.5% for exec pay

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