{"id":160400,"date":"2025-11-30T08:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T08:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/160400\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T08:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T08:27:07","slug":"norway-wealth-fund-to-vote-for-human-rights-report-at-microsoft-agm-against-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/160400\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft AGM, against management"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella departs following a meeting of the White House Task Force on AI Education in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025.<\/p>\n

Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n

Norway’s $2 trillion wealth fund said on Sunday it would vote for a shareholder proposal at the upcoming Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0annual general meeting requiring for a report on the risks of operating in countries with significant human rights concerns.<\/p>\n

Microsoft management had recommended shareholders voted against the motion.<\/p>\n

The fund also\u00a0said it would vote against the re-appointment of CEO Satya Nadella as chair of the board, as well as against his pay package.<\/p>\n

The fund owned a 1.35% stake worth $50 billion in the company as of June 30, according to fund data, making it the fund’s second-largest equity holding overall, after Nvidia.<\/p>\n

It is Microsoft’s eighth-largest shareholder, according to LSEG data.<\/p>\n

Investors in the U.S. tech company will decide whether to ratify the proposed motions at the AGM on Dec. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella departs following a meeting of the White House Task Force on AI Education in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[354,114,357,85,46,355,96562,125],"class_list":["post-160400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-microsoft-corp","tag-norway-government","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}