Norway's $1 Trillion Wealth Fund Steps Up `No' Votes on CEO Pay

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When Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund said it wanted companies to curb excessive and opaque top-management pay, it meant business.

Since releasing a position paper in April, the world’s biggest wealth fund has increased the number of votes against management compensation proposals in the companies it invests in, Carine Smith Ihenacho, its global head of ownership strategies, said in an interview in Oslo.