  We investigated the properties of 94 [NeV]3426AA-selected type 2 AGN in
COSMOS at z=0.6-1.2, performing optical-to-far-infrared spectral energy
distribution fitting. In addition, we analyze the X-ray spectra of the
X-ray-detected sources to obtain reliable values of the AGN obscuration and
intrinsic luminosity.
  We found that more than two-thirds of our sample is composed of very obscured
sources, with about 20% of the sources being candidate CT-AGN and half being
AGNs in a strong phase of accretion. With respect to non-active galaxies, we
find a higher fraction of sources within the main sequence and little evidence
for AGNs quenching the SF. The comparison with the prediction from the in situ
co-evolution model suggests that [NeV] is an effective tool for selecting
galaxies in the obscured growth phase of the BH-galaxy co-evolution paradigm.
We find that the "quenching phase" is still to come for most of the sample and
only few galaxies show evidence of quenched SF activity.
