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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 912036

AMG Funds IV

fund voting report

Vote records reported
3,885year to 30 June 2026
Against management
5.3%203 of 3,815 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
86.5%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
59.0%for, of for + against + abstain
93.4% for4.2% against2.4% other5.3% against management3,837 votes

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

AMG Funds IV reported 3,885 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 5.3% of its votes as cast against management (203 of 3,815), close to the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 4.8%. 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 86.5% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 59.0% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (34.5% of 145), COMPENSATION (18.3% of 104) and SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES (11.6% of 353).

It reported 5.9 million shares out on loan at record dates, 1.21% 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 share5.3%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate86.5%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate59.0%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held1.21%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 ELECTIONS2,6682,561573.2%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES3592824411.6%
AUDIT-RELATED34634600.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES1412223.1%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS121200.0%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE11411400.0%
COMPENSATION104851718.3%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE1461271134.5%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE1751229.4%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE93633.3%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION21150.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES238158.7%
OTHER524574.4%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20244,3557.0%87.3%31.9%
year to 30 June 20254,1336.2%85.1%34.2%
year to 30 June 20263,8855.3%86.5%59.0%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, AMG Funds IV voted against management on 29 of the 221 it marked either way (13.1%) in the year to 30 June 2026.

A further 3 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 64 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, AMG Funds IV voted for 35 (54.7%). Titles are the most common wording among filers; where a wording could name a person, the SEC category is printed instead.

CompanyMeetingProposal
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Human Rights Due Diligence
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Data Operations in Human Rights Hotspots
Johnson & Johnson23 Apr 2026Independent Board Chair
AbbVie Inc.8 May 2026Stockholder Proposal - to Adopt a Policy to Require an Independent Chair
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.2 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting that the Company issue a report disclosing the Board's oversight framework...
PEPSICO, INC.6 May 2026Shareholder Proposal - Independent Board Chair.
Wells Fargo & Company28 Apr 2026Require Independent Board Chair
Amgen Inc.19 May 2026Stockholder proposal to require an independent board chairman.
Texas Instruments Incorporated16 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal to permit stockholders to act by written consent.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company5 May 2026Require Independent Board Chair
Starbucks Corporation25 Mar 2026Shareholder proposal requesting supermajority shareholder voting requirements be replaced with majority...
Starbucks Corporation25 Mar 2026Shareholder proposal requesting adoption of an independent board chair policy
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION12 May 2026Stockholder Proposal Requiring Independent Board Chairman
Micron Technology, Inc.15 Jan 2026Reduce Ownership Threshold for Shareholders to Call Special Meeting
Zoetis Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal to permit shareholder action by written consent.
Corning Incorporated30 Apr 2026Request to adopt an independent chair policy
Delta Air Lines, Inc.18 Jun 2026A shareholder proposal requesting the ability for shareholders to act by written consent.
Lennar Corporation8 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES
Jabil Inc.22 Jan 2026Vote on a stockholder proposal requesting stockholder right to act by written consent.
The AES Corporation29 Apr 2026If properly presented, to vote on a non-binding stockholder proposal regarding stockholder ability to call...
Corpay, Inc.7 May 2026Shareholder proposal regarding an independent Board Chair requirement
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
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
Eagle Materials Inc.4 Aug 2025Non-binding advisory stockholder proposal requesting the declassification of our Board of Directors.
Murphy USA Inc.7 May 2026Stockholder Proposal - Give Shareholders the Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting.
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
MarketAxess Holdings Inc.10 Jun 2026If properly presented, a stockholder proposal regarding changes to existing stockholder special meeting right.
Asbury Automotive Group, Inc.4 May 2026Stockholder proposal regarding special stockholder meetings.
ICU Medical, Inc.13 May 2026To approve, on an advisory basis, a stockholder proposal to establish a 10% stockholder special meeting right.
Cannae Holdings, Inc.12 Dec 2025If properly presented at the Annual Meeting, to consider and act on a shareholder proposal to engage an...
RELX PLC23 Apr 2026Corporate governance
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited16 Apr 2026Financed Emissions Disclosure

Shares on loan

AMG Funds IV reported 5.9 million shares on loan at record dates against 482.9 million shares voted: 1.21% 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

7 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
AMG River Road Small-Mid Cap Value Fund8144.9%86.2%75.0%
AMG River Road Dividend All Cap Value Fund7525.7%84.0%50.0%
AMG GW&K Small/Mid Cap Growth Fund6944.6%86.8%77.8%
AMG River Road Small Cap Value Fund6345.1%90.9%not reported
AMG River Road Mid Cap Value Fund5416.3%86.0%56.3%
AMG River Road Focused Absolute Value Fund4125.7%84.6%75.0%
AMG Montrusco Bolton Large Cap Growth Fund385.3%not reported28.6%

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 AMG Funds IV vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 AMG Funds IV reported 326 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 282 were for (86.5%), 44 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 29 of the 221 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 3 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does AMG Funds IV vote against management?

5.3% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 203 of the 3,815 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 AMG Funds IV support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 17 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 5 of them (29.4%). Across every category it voted for 59.0% 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 AMG Funds IV (filer no. 912036), 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.