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Tesla Investors Urge Board to Go Beyond SEC-Ordered Overhaul

  • CtW and state pension funds send letter to independent members
  • Carmaker agreed to name new chairman after U.S. sued Elon Musk
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A group of Tesla Inc. investors wants the electric-car maker’s board to grow up.

A Securities and Exchange Commission settlement that requires Tesla to replace Elon Musk with a new chairman and add two independent directors doesn’t go far enough to fix the company’s corporate governance woes, according to a union-affiliated investor group and officials representing major pension funds in four states.