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Washington Mutual Investors Fund (AWSHX) 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
Washington Mutual Investors Fund 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 Washington Mutual Investors Fund on 2026-08-28 · open the filing · vote table (proxytable.xml, 2.1 MB)
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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, 1 of its 186 shareholder proposals would sit under a different issue, or under none. On management's own executive pay resolutions, this fund voted in favour 92.4% of the time across 144 votes.
| Issue | Proposals faced | Backed | Share backed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate & environment | 38 | 0 | 0% |
| Workers & human rights | 14 | 0 | 0% |
| Pay equity & inclusion | 3 | 1 | 33.3% |
| Executive pay | 6 | 2 | 33.3% |
| Corporate governance | 84 | 40 | 47.6% |
| Other social issues | 41 | 0 | 0% |
On 3 of the 2,639 ballot items in its filing, 1 of them shareholder proposals, part of this fund’s shares was cast a different way from the rest: 6,688,131 shares in all, 0.035% of the shares it voted. Every figure here counts the way most of its shares were cast.
Ballots it voted
Mondelez International, Inc. · 20 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Mondelez International 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 Washington Mutual Investors Fund voted with 22,044,441 shares
“Shareholder proposal requesting a report on objective evaluation of plastics packaging policies”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceWashington Mutual Investors Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-28 · accession 0001104659-26-102951 · series S000009388 · open the filing
NVIDIA Corporation · 24 June 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Nvidia 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 Washington Mutual Investors Fund voted with 17,629,303 shares
“Approval of a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting reporting on greenhouse gas emissions from the use of our sold products.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceWashington Mutual Investors Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-28 · accession 0001104659-26-102951 · series S000009388 · 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 Washington Mutual Investors Fund voted with 24,880,858 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.
SourceWashington Mutual Investors Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-28 · accession 0001104659-26-102951 · series S000009388 · 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 Washington Mutual Investors Fund voted with 24,880,858 shares
“Report on Human Rights Due Diligence”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceWashington Mutual Investors Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-28 · accession 0001104659-26-102951 · series S000009388 · 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 Washington Mutual Investors Fund voted with 13,179,545 shares
“Vote on a shareowner proposal requesting a report on the extent of the Company's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceWashington Mutual Investors Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-28 · accession 0001104659-26-102951 · series S000009388 · open the filing
AT&T Inc. · 14 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Should AT&T publish the workforce breakdown it already files with the government?
Shareholders asked the company to publish its EEO-1 report — the table of employees by job category, race and sex that it is already required to submit to federal regulators — instead of keeping it confidential.
FOR Washington Mutual Investors Fund voted with 10,339,303 shares
“EEO-1 Report Disclosure Policy”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceWashington Mutual Investors Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-28 · accession 0001104659-26-102951 · series S000009388 · open the filing
Capital One Financial Corporation · 8 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Should shareholders get a vote before Capital One Financial 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 Washington Mutual Investors Fund voted with 7,648,966 shares
“Stockholder proposal to require a shareholder vote on golden parachute arrangements.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceWashington Mutual Investors Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-28 · accession 0001104659-26-102951 · series S000009388 · open the filing
Meta Platforms, Inc. · 27 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Regarding annual vote regarding executive pay.
FOR Washington Mutual Investors Fund voted with 4,660,908 shares
“A shareholder proposal regarding annual vote regarding executive pay.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceWashington Mutual Investors Fund, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-28 · accession 0001104659-26-102951 · series S000009388 · open the filing
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