A look at the proxy voting patterns of mutual fund companies in 2006 by
Critics continue to charge that they do so in order to curry the favor of companies whose retirement plans they run or hope to run, and fund companies continue to retort that is not the case. If they vote along with management, they reason, it’s because they have bought shares in a company they already believe in.
But Corporate Library found, for example, that 98% of the time,
Other fund companies, it appears, such as
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