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-- Europe’s largest pension fund sold its entire 571 million stake in Tesla Inc. in the third quarter partly due to disagreement with Elon Musk’s remuneration package.“We had a problem” with Musk’s pay package, a spokesperson for Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP said Sunday. The fund also considered costs, return and responsible investment requirements in its decision to sell its investment.The news was first reported by Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad, which also cited poor working conditions at the company among ABP’s reasons to ditch Tesla.Last month, Musk’s record-setting Tesla pay package was struck down once again by a Delaware judge even after shareholders backed the amounts and Musk asked her to reconsider. The stock options package was initially worth $2.6 billion and spiked to $56 billion by the time the judge canceled it.In June, ABP voted against the pay package, calling it “controversial and exceptionally high.”

CEOs’ cups runneth over, largely because they’re serving themselves. And the billionaire CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, is no exception. But it seems as if Benioff’s spree is slowing down ever so slightly, as his shareholders just pumped the brakes on his latest hefty compensation package.Alongside the suggested pay plans of other Salesforce executives, Benioff’s proposed compensation was rejected by 404.8 million votes , according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing published on Monday.While the board encouraged shareholders to accept said proposal, two shareholder advisory companies, Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services, suggested otherwise, according to CNBC. The shareholders’ vote, however, is not binding, meaning Benioff could still get his million-dollar bonus.Gerber, a shareholder himself, excoriated the Tesla board ahead of its second vote. “Not only is the board not independent, they basically work for Elon,” he told Fox Business. “At some point, you

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