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American Funds

Funds Belonging to this Family

• » Growth Fund of America (2,770 votes)

Overall
activism
score

13.4

Percentile

6

What does this mean?

This funds in this fund family have voted against the recommendation of management on 13.4% of the proposals they have faced. This makes them more activist than 6% of the fund families in our database, as shown by the small blue and red plot above.

Activism Profile

Issue area	Activism Score	Activism Percentile	Activism Plot
Directors D	2.0	6
Executive compensation EC	13.8	9
Corporate governance CG	35.8	15
Corporate impact CI	1.9	33

Activism footprint: More activist fund families have larger footprints. Each corner depicts the fund family's activism percentile on one issue area. (More detailed explanation)

Detailed Vote Record

	Activism Score	Activism Plot	Votes
Directors			Against mgmt	With mgmt	Abstain
Director Election	2.0		37	1,813	0
Executive compensation
Management Proposals	16.9		21	113	2
Shareholder Proposals	10.7		9	75	0
Corporate governance
Board Independence and Performance	15.4		4	22	0
Voting Rules	41.9		13	18	0
Takeover Defenses	50.0		7	7	0
Corporate impact
Employment and Working Conditions	5.6		1	17	0
Environmental and Social	0.0		0	53	0
Political Influence and Charitable Contributions	0.0		0	21	0