ING response to shareholders

• Shareholders at the ING Emerging Countries Fund approved the genocide-free investing proposal by a wide margin in a vote on June 28, 2012.  The proposal passed 59.8% to 10.7% with 29.5% abstaining.  This decisive win at ING is a first for the genocide-free investing proposal and affirms our earlier research showing that the vast majority of Americans want to avoid investments tied to genocide.
• A year after the vote, ING informed Investors Against Genocide of its decision to take no action to implement genocide-free investing despite the 2012 proxy vote which strongly endorsed having a genocide-free investing policy.
• On August 7, 2013, a coalition of investors called on ING to reconsider its decision to disregard the results of the proxy vote.
• Letter to ING here.
• Press release here.
• Article in The Guardian: Shareholders to ING: stop investing in genocidal Sudan