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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 872825

AMERICAN CENTURY WORLD MUTUAL FUNDS INC

fund voting report, part of American Century

Vote records reported
13,158year to 30 June 2026
Against management
5.7%732 of 12,790 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
70.1%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
30.6%for, of for + against + abstain
91.8% for7.1% against1.1% other5.7% against management13,049 votes

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

AMERICAN CENTURY WORLD MUTUAL FUNDS INC reported 13,158 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 5.7% of its votes as cast against management (732 of 12,790), close to the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 6.3%. 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 70.1% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 30.6% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES (28.4% of 95), SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (16.7% of 30) and COMPENSATION (12.9% of 1,760).

It reported 234.0 million shares out on loan at record dates, 2.49% 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 share5.7%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate70.1%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate30.6%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held2.49%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 ELECTIONS5,8015,4162675.2%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES95612628.4%
AUDIT-RELATED768734342.7%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS2200.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES3626316.7%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS12211664.9%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE1,8421,756864.6%
COMPENSATION1,7841,54723412.9%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE2,8582,6591873.0%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE11049611.8%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE473890.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION4838100.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES151105460.7%
OTHER9949505.2%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 202413,6808.3%57.1%33.7%
year to 30 June 202513,7837.2%51.9%28.7%
year to 30 June 202613,1585.7%70.1%30.6%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, AMERICAN CENTURY WORLD MUTUAL FUNDS INC voted against management on 26 of the 86 it marked either way (30.2%) in the year to 30 June 2026.

A further 1 say-on-pay item was reported without a management mark and are left out of both sides of that fraction.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 207 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, AMERICAN CENTURY WORLD MUTUAL FUNDS INC voted for 46 (22.2%). 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...
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding equal shareholder voting
Wells Fargo & Company28 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal - Govern by Majority Vote.
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.
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.18 Jun 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal regarding a report on deforestation in the company's own-brand supply chain
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.18 Jun 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal regarding a report on greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.18 Jun 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal regarding adopting a majority voting standard
Five Below, Inc.16 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal requesting that provisions in the Company's governance documents requiring greater...
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd.25 Dec 2025Shareholder proposal: CAPITAL STRUCTURE
Eni SpA6 May 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Eni SpA6 May 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Eni SpA6 May 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Eni SpA6 May 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Sompo Holdings, Inc.22 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
EDP SA16 Apr 2026Appraise Management of Company and Approve Vote of Confidence to Executive Board
EDP SA16 Apr 2026Appraise Supervision of Company and Approve Vote of Confidence to Supervisory Board
EDP SA16 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Banco BPM SpA16 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.25 Jun 2026Amend Articles to Require Individual Compensation Disclosure for Executive Officers
Buzzi SpA13 May 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Buzzi SpA13 May 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Buzzi SpA13 May 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Buzzi SpA13 May 2026Fix Board Terms for Directors
Buzzi SpA13 May 2026Fix Number of Directors
Itau Unibanco Holding SA28 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Aluminum Corporation of China Limited26 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Aluminum Corporation of China Limited26 Jun 2026Approve Renewal of Liability Insurance for Directors and Senior Management Members
Aluminum Corporation of China Limited26 Jun 2026Authorize Board to Determine the Interim Profit Distribution Plan
Lottomatica Group SpA20 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Lottomatica Group SpA20 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Lottomatica Group SpA20 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Lottomatica Group SpA20 Apr 2026Fix Board Terms for Directors
Lottomatica Group SpA20 Apr 2026Fix Number of Directors
Saipem SpA12 May 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Saipem SpA12 May 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Saipem SpA12 May 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Ganfeng Lithium Group Co., Ltd.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal: INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS
Ganfeng Lithium Group Co., Ltd.29 Jun 2026Amend Remuneration Management System for Directors and Senior Management

Shares on loan

AMERICAN CENTURY WORLD MUTUAL FUNDS INC reported 234.0 million shares on loan at record dates against 9.15 billion shares voted: 2.49% 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

9 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
International Value Fund2,7274.2%not reported18.1%
International Growth Fund1,7744.1%not reported18.2%
International Opportunities Fund1,6537.6%not reported31.6%
International Small-Mid Cap Fund1,6415.1%not reported50.0%
Global Small Cap Fund1,5848.3%62.9%52.2%
Emerging Markets Fund1,2879.6%not reported58.3%
Non-U.S. Intrinsic Value Fund1,0453.7%not reported66.7%
Focused International Growth Fund8534.4%not reported11.1%
Focused Global Growth Fund5945.2%90.5%11.8%

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 AMERICAN CENTURY WORLD MUTUAL FUNDS INC vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 AMERICAN CENTURY WORLD MUTUAL FUNDS INC reported 87 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 61 were for (70.1%), 26 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 26 of the 86 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 1 say-on-pay item was reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does AMERICAN CENTURY WORLD MUTUAL FUNDS INC vote against management?

5.7% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 732 of the 12,790 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 AMERICAN CENTURY WORLD MUTUAL FUNDS INC support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 63 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 2 of them (3.2%). Across every category it voted for 30.6% 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 AMERICAN CENTURY WORLD MUTUAL FUNDS INC (filer no. 872825), 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.