AEGON has a Global Voting Policy, which sets out company-wide practices and principles for all its asset management operations around the world. This Global Voting Policy operates alongside existing local initiatives.
All of AEGON's voting policies, including the Global Voting Policy, are reviewed and updated periodically. AEGON asset management companies regularly report their voting activities or, alternatively, will supply voting records to customers and investors, if requested. AEGON has begun to collate these records, and intends to publish all available voting decisions at a corporate level during the course of 2010.
Voting records from AEGON asset management companies in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom Aand Canada are publicly available on their websites. AEGON does not currently publish voting records for its investment companies in either the United States or Central & Eastern Europe. Additional information on AEGON’s activities as a shareholder in other companies may be found at the websites of: