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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 1056707

BNY MELLON INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS

fund voting report, part of BNY Mellon

Vote records reported
8,685year to 30 June 2026
Against management
7.9%681 of 8,624 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
76.7%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
37.7%for, of for + against + abstain
91.1% for6.1% against2.8% other7.9% against management8,626 votes

foragainstabstain, withhold or otheramber tick: the portion cast against management

For the year to 30 June 2026, BNY MELLON INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS reported 8,685 vote records on Form N-PX. 681 of the 8,624 votes that were marked for or against management went against management: 7.9%, 1.7 percentage points above the median fund registrant (6.2%).

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 7.2%. The two figures differ when the votes against management fall on larger or smaller holdings than the rest.

On pay and on shareholder proposals: it voted for 76.7% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 37.7% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (25.0% of 24), SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES (22.4% of 938) and COMPENSATION (17.1% of 321).

It reported 33.6 million shares out on loan at record dates, 16.67% of the shares it held or had lent across the meetings it reported. Shares on loan are not voted.

Compared with other filers

Each rate is defined once, in the methodology. The median is taken over 1,241 fund registrants with at least 25 vote records in the season.

year to 30 June 2026This filerMedian fund registrantAll filers pooled
Against-management share7.9%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate76.7%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate37.7%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held16.67%0.00%3.12%
Largest families, year to 30 June 2026Against managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal support
Vanguard20.1%94.1%42.0%
BlackRock and iShares7.5%88.3%11.9%
Fidelity6.0%94.7%27.6%
Dimensional16.4%78.9%57.4%
State Street and SPDR16.9%77.1%50.4%

Votes by category

Filers choose one or more categories for each vote, so a vote can appear in more than one row. Category names are printed as Form N-PX defines them.

Category (as the form names it)VotesForAgainstAgainst managementSplit
DIRECTOR ELECTIONS6,0805,7941014.7%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES93867720622.4%
AUDIT-RELATED8637768710.1%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES2520525.0%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS777345.2%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE625934.8%
COMPENSATION3212685317.1%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE2342003416.2%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE180180.0%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE9090.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION100100.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES201195.0%
OTHER101not reported

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20249,15511.4%75.5%42.6%
year to 30 June 20258,7649.6%76.6%48.8%
year to 30 June 20268,6857.9%76.7%37.7%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, BNY MELLON INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS voted against management on 194 of the 847 it marked either way (22.9%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 2 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are left out of both sides of that fraction.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 111 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, BNY MELLON INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS voted for 41 (36.9%). The 40 at the companies with the most reporting filers are listed. Titles are the most common wording among filers; where a wording could name a person, the SEC category is printed instead.

CompanyMeetingProposal
NVIDIA Corporation24 Jun 2026Approval of a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting the replacement of supermajority voting...
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled, "Proposal 4 - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent,"
QUALCOMM Incorporated17 Mar 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Meeting."
ServiceNow, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder proposal regarding shareholder right to act by written consent.
Texas Instruments Incorporated16 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal to permit stockholders to act by written consent.
Micron Technology, Inc.15 Jan 2026Reduce Ownership Threshold for Shareholders to Call Special Meeting
Lam Research Corporation4 Nov 2025Stockholder proposal titled "Realistic Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting,"
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding annual vote regarding executive pay.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results by share class.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding dual class capital structure.
Synopsys, Inc.16 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal regarding 'stockholders' right to act by written consent
Marvell Technology, Inc.25 Jun 2026To consider and act on one stockholder proposal, entitled "Independent Board Chairman"
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.12 May 2026Shareholder Proposal to Give Shareholders the Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting (Proposal...
Delta Air Lines, Inc.18 Jun 2026A shareholder proposal requesting the ability for shareholders to act by written consent.
Datadog, Inc.15 Jun 2026The stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, requesting the adoption of a simple...
NRG Energy, Inc.30 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal to give shareholders the ability to call for a special shareholder meeting
Edison International23 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Retention of Equity
CF Industries Holdings, Inc.28 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal regarding shareholder approval requirement for excessive golden parachutes
HubSpot, Inc.15 Jun 2026A stockholder proposal to change the Company's Sixth Amended and Restated Bylaws to allow 10% holders of...
Entegris, Inc.6 May 2026Stockholder Proposal: Providing stockholders the right to call special meetings of stockholders.
Medpace Holdings, Inc.15 May 2026Stockholder proposal regarding giving shareholders an ability to call for a special shareholder meeting
Crown Holdings, Inc.30 Apr 2026Consideration of a Shareholder proposal regarding Shareholder right to act by written consent.
Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc.5 May 2026Advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation
MKS Instruments, Inc.11 May 2026A shareholder proposal to reduce the threshold percentage of shareholders required to call a special...
Five Below, Inc.16 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal requesting that provisions in the Company's governance documents requiring greater...
Lumen Technologies, Inc.20 May 2026Approval of a shareholder proposal regarding a shareholder right to vote for or against a poison pill.
OGE Energy Corp.14 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Simple Majority Vote.
The Timken Company8 May 2026Corporate governance
Eagle Materials Inc.4 Aug 2025Non-binding advisory stockholder proposal requesting the declassification of our Board of Directors.
AGCO Corporation23 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal regarding giving stockholders an ability to call for a special stockholder meeting
Murphy USA Inc.7 May 2026Stockholder Proposal - Give Shareholders the Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting.
Etsy, Inc.9 Jun 2026Advisory vote on a stockholder proposal to govern by majority vote.
American Airlines Group Inc.10 Jun 2026Advisory vote on stockholder proposal for stockholder right to act by written consent
Mohawk Industries, Inc.21 May 2026Stockholder proposal regarding a majority vote standard.
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.21 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal regarding dual class capital structure.
Lithia Motors, Inc.30 Apr 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal requesting a change to our board leadership structure
PENN Entertainment, Inc.16 Jun 2026Declassify the board of directors
Calix, Inc.14 May 2026To hold an advisory vote on a stockholder proposal relating to a simple majority vote.
BlackLine, Inc.7 May 2026Declassify the board of directors
Avis Budget Group, Inc.20 May 2026Adopt simple majority vote

Shares on loan

BNY MELLON INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS reported 33.6 million shares on loan at record dates against 168.1 million shares voted: 16.67% of the two together. Median fund registrant: 0.00%. Shares lent out at the record date cannot be voted by the lender, which is why Form N-PX asks for the figure. More on lending and votes.

Fund series in this filing

3 series reported votes. A vote record can list several series. Series with 500 or more vote records have their own page.

SeriesVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal support
Small Cap Stock Index Portfolio5,6267.5%79.2%25.0%
MidCap Stock Portfolio2,6458.4%70.8%51.3%
Technology Growth Portfolio4149.7%84.0%32.6%

The filings

These figures are read from the filer's own Form N-PX. If a vote on this page looks wrong, the filing is the record: a dispute about a filed vote is a matter for the filer, and an error in how this site read the filing is a matter for corrections.

Questions

How did BNY MELLON INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 BNY MELLON INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS reported 883 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 677 were for (76.7%), 206 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 194 of the 847 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 2 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does BNY MELLON INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS vote against management?

7.9% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 681 of the 8,624 votes it marked as for or against management. Form N-PX asks each filer to state, vote by vote, whether the vote was for or against management's recommendation; this figure counts those marks.

Did BNY MELLON INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 18 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 0 of them (0.0%). Across every category it voted for 37.7% of security-holder proposals. Filers choose the category for each vote, so the same proposal can sit in different categories in different filings.

Is this the result of the meetings?

No. Form N-PX shows how this filer voted the shares it held. It does not show how other shareholders voted or whether a proposal was approved. Companies report certified results separately, on Form 8-K.

Where does the data come from?

From the Form N-PX filings of this filer on the SEC's EDGAR system, read as filed. The SEC does not verify the contents. Amended filings (N-PX/A) replace the filings they amend. Data on this page runs through 23 Sep 2026.

Provenance: SEC EDGAR, Form N-PX and N-PX/A filings by BNY MELLON INVESTMENT PORTFOLIOS (filer no. 1056707), read as filed and not verified by the SEC. Amended filings replace the filings they amend. Filings read through 23 Sep 2026; page built 26 Sep 2026.