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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 53808

BNY Mellon Investment Funds III

fund voting report, part of BNY Mellon

Vote records reported
2,648year to 30 June 2026
Against management
6.3%165 of 2,632 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
88.4%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
23.4%for, of for + against + abstain
89.4% for10.3% against0.3% other6.3% against management2,648 votes

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

BNY Mellon Investment Funds III reported 2,648 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 6.3% of its votes as cast against management (165 of 2,632), close to the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 7.3%. 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 88.4% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 23.4% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in AUDIT-RELATED (39.2% of 176), SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES (11.2% of 143) and CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (10.7% of 261).

It reported 12.3 million shares out on loan at record dates, 2.73% 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 share6.3%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate88.4%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate23.4%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held2.73%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 ELECTIONS1,6501,618301.8%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES1431221611.2%
AUDIT-RELATED1791097039.2%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES118327.3%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS3300.0%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE16115743.7%
COMPENSATION151136159.5%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE2722205210.7%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE441430.0%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE151140.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION271260.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES709612.9%
OTHER6600.0%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20242,44510.2%87.3%34.5%
year to 30 June 20252,5787.0%87.7%23.0%
year to 30 June 20262,6486.3%88.4%23.4%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, BNY Mellon Investment Funds III voted against management on 16 of the 123 it marked either way (13.0%) in the year to 30 June 2026.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 161 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, BNY Mellon Investment Funds III voted for 36 (22.4%). 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...
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding a report on AI data usage oversight
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding equal shareholder voting
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal on shareholder right to act by written consent.
Eli Lilly and Company4 May 2026Shareholder proposal to adopt a policy and amend the bylaws to require an independent board chair.
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled, "Proposal 4 - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent,"
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025A shareholder proposal to seek shareholder approval before adopting an amendment to the bylaws pursuant to...
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025Declassify the Board of Directors
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
QUALCOMM Incorporated17 Mar 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Meeting."
Pfizer Inc.23 Apr 2026Adopt an Independent Chair Policy
AT&T INC.14 May 2026Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent
Texas Instruments Incorporated16 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal to permit stockholders to act by written consent.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.29 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Special Shareholder Meeting Thresholds
Comcast Corporation10 Jun 2026Adopt policy to have an independent chair
Starbucks Corporation25 Mar 2026Shareholder proposal requesting supermajority shareholder voting requirements be replaced with majority...
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION12 May 2026Stockholder Proposal Requiring Independent Board Chairman
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.
Target Corporation10 Jun 2026Require Independent Board Chair
Zoetis Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal to permit shareholder action by written consent.
Dominion Energy, Inc.5 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding a Policy for an Independent Chair
Dollar General Corporation28 May 2026To vote on a shareholder proposal asking the Board to take the steps necessary to reduce the minimum...
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
The Western Union Company14 May 2026Stockholder proposal regarding stockholder right to act by written consent
Moncler SpA21 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Moncler SpA21 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Moncler SpA21 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk19 Dec 2025Amend Articles of Association
PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk19 Dec 2025Approve Delegation of Authority for Approval of the 2026 Company Work Plan and Budget
PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk17 Dec 2025Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk10 Apr 2026Amend Articles of Association

Shares on loan

BNY Mellon Investment Funds III reported 12.3 million shares on loan at record dates against 438.5 million shares voted: 2.73% 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

2 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
BNY Mellon Equity Income Fund1,6177.2%87.2%21.2%
BNY Mellon Global Equity Income Fund1,0314.7%93.1%26.8%

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 Funds III vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 BNY Mellon Investment Funds III reported 138 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 122 were for (88.4%), 16 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 16 of the 123 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

How often does BNY Mellon Investment Funds III vote against management?

6.3% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 165 of the 2,632 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 Funds III support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 43 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 23.4% 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 Funds III (filer no. 53808), 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.