Norges Bank votes for activist's four candidates in Air Products board fight

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Norway's sovereign wealthiness fund, 1 of Air Products and Chemicals (NYSE:)' 10 biggest investors, said it volition ballot for each 4 of activistic capitalist Mantle Ridge's manager candidates to articulation the concern gases company's board.

Norges Bank Investment Management said connected its website that it volition backmost each dissident nominees and ballot against 4 of Air Products' committee members, including main enforcement Seifi Ghasemi and pb manager Edward Monser astatine the Jan. 23 yearly meeting. It did not connection an mentation for its decision.

The capitalist owned a 1.55% involvement successful Air Products astatine the extremity of June, according to LSEG data.