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Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.: meeting of 27 Jun 2025
Votes reported on Form N-PX, item by item
191 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. meeting of 27 Jun 2025. Their records fall into 10 items below, in ballot order: management items first, then proposals from security holders. Each bar shows how the reporting filers split; it is not the result of the meeting.
foragainstabstain, withhold or otheramber tick: the portion cast against management
Items
DIRECTOR ELECTIONSIssuer
Director elections
13 nominees; 86.9% of reported votes for; 166 filers withheld from or voted against at least one nominee.
5,278 vote records from 189 filers. 13 of the 188 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 1 filer reported this item without a management mark.
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTESIssuer
Advisory vote on executive pay (say-on-pay)
3 vote records from 2 filers. 0 of the 2 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
CAPITAL STRUCTUREIssuer
CAPITAL STRUCTURE: management items
Management items in this category are shown together; filers word and number them differently.
409 vote records from 187 filers. 7 of the 186 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 1 filer reported this item without a management mark.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCEIssuer
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: management items
Management items in this category are shown together; filers word and number them differently.
47 vote records from 15 filers. 0 of the 4 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 11 filers reported this item without a management mark.
OTHERIssuer
OTHER: management items
Management items in this category are shown together; filers word and number them differently.
39 vote records from 21 filers. 0 of the 1 filers that marked the item either way voted against management. 20 filers reported this item without a management mark.
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATESecurity holder
Amend Articles to Add Provision on Assessment of Clients' Climate Change Transition Plans
351 vote records from 167 filers. 22 of the 167 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCESecurity holder
Amend Articles to Add Provision on Disclosure of Financial Risk Audit by Audit Committee
350 vote records from 167 filers. 13 of the 167 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
CAPITAL STRUCTURESecurity holder
Shareholder proposal: CAPITAL STRUCTURE
270 vote records from 134 filers. 8 of the 134 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
CAPITAL STRUCTURESecurity holder
Shareholder Proposal: Approve Appropriation of Surplus
81 vote records from 34 filers. 1 of the 34 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
Several categoriesSecurity holder
Shareholder proposals (not separable from the filings)
Filers described these proposals in wordings that could not be matched to one another, so they are shown together.
144 vote records from 26 filers. 1 of the 26 filers that marked the item either way voted against management.
How the largest families voted
| Family | 1. Directors | 6. Proposal | 7. Proposal | 8. Proposal | 9. Proposal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| BlackRock and iShares | For | Against | Against | No report | Against |
| Fidelity | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Dimensional | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| State Street and SPDR | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| American Century | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Franklin Templeton | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Invesco | For | Against | Against | For * | No report |
| Equitable | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Charles Schwab | For | No report | No report | No report | No report |
| Nuveen and TIAA | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| John Hancock and Manulife | For | Against | Against | No report | Against |
| Morgan Stanley, Eaton Vance and Calvert | Against * | For * | For * | Against | No report |
| J.P. Morgan | For | For * | Against | No report | Against |
| Goldman Sachs | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| WisdomTree | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| PGIM and Prudential | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Jackson National funds | For | For * | For * | No report | Against |
| Northern Trust and FlexShares | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| SEI | For | No report | No report | No report | No report |
| T. Rowe Price | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Thrivent | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Lincoln Financial | For | Against | Against | Against | Against |
| Voya | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| First Trust | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Russell Investments | For | No report | No report | No report | No report |
| Nationwide | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Victory Capital | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Brighthouse Funds | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Columbia Threadneedle | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| BNY Mellon | For | Against | Against | For * | No report |
| Principal | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Capital Group and American Funds | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Pacific Life funds | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Global X | For | No report | No report | No report | No report |
| MFS | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Transamerica | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Federated Hermes | For | No report | No report | No report | No report |
| AllianceBernstein | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Hartford Funds | For | No report | No report | No report | No report |
| DWS | For | For * | Against | Against | No report |
| PIMCO | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Allspring | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| MassMutual | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Harbor Funds | For | Against | Against | No report | Against |
| Virtus | For | For * | For * | Against | No report |
| Lord Abbett | For | Against | Against | Against | No report |
| Artisan Partners | Split or no vote | No report | No report | No report | No report |
* against management. A family's position is the way most of its reported shares were voted across its filers; "split" means no single position led. "No report" means none of the family's filers listed the item.
Questions
How did large funds vote at the Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. meeting?
191 Form N-PX filers reported votes at the meeting of 27 Jun 2025. On say-on-pay, 0 of 2 voted against management (0.0%). 4 proposals from security holders could be told apart in the filings. The family table lists each of the largest families item by item.
Is this the meeting result?
No. These are the votes of funds and managers that file Form N-PX, counted by filer and by the shares they reported. The certified result, which includes every shareholder, is reported by Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. on Form 8-K.
Why are director elections shown as counts only?
Director records name the nominee. This site does not publish pages or rows about individuals, so for director elections it keeps the number of nominees and the split of votes and discards the wording.
Every meeting on file for Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.
Provenance: SEC EDGAR, Form N-PX and N-PX/A filings listing Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. with a meeting date within three days of 27 Jun 2025. Proposal titles are the most common wording among filers and are replaced by the SEC category where a wording could name a person. Not verified by the SEC. Filings read through 23 Sep 2026.