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Brighthouse Funds

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Vote records reported
178,867year to 30 June 2024
Against management
7.3%12,088 of 164,781 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
84.5%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
38.3%for, of for + against + abstain
82.3% for8.9% against8.8% other7.3% against management177,862 votes

foragainstabstain, withhold or otheramber tick: the portion cast against management

Brighthouse Funds reported 178,867 vote records for the year to 30 June 2024. It marked 7.3% of its votes as cast against management (12,088 of 164,781), 1.2 percentage points below the median of the fund families tracked here, which was 8.5%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 5.9%. The two figures differ when the votes against management fall on larger or smaller holdings than the rest.

On pay and on shareholder proposals: it voted for 84.5% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median of the fund families tracked here: 89.0%) and it voted for 38.3% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median of the fund families tracked here: 35.1%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (38.9% of 650), DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (37.6% of 768) and ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE (36.6% of 1,177).

It reported 1.47 billion shares out on loan at record dates, 6.55% of the shares it held or had lent across the meetings it reported. Shares on loan are not voted.

Compared with other filers

Each rate is defined once, in the methodology. The median is taken over 60 families with at least 25 vote records in the season.

year to 30 June 2024This familyMedian familyAll filers pooled
Against-management share7.3%8.5%10.2%
Say-on-pay support rate84.5%89.0%84.6%
Shareholder-proposal support rate38.3%35.1%37.0%
Shares on loan, share of shares held6.55%1.34%0.08%
Largest families, year to 30 June 2026Against managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal support
Vanguard20.1%94.1%42.0%
BlackRock and iShares7.5%88.3%11.9%
Fidelity6.0%94.7%27.6%
Dimensional16.4%78.9%57.4%
State Street and SPDR16.9%77.1%50.4%

Votes by category

Filers choose one or more categories for each vote, so a vote can appear in more than one row. Category names are printed as Form N-PX defines them.

Category (as the form names it)VotesForAgainstAgainst managementSplit
DIRECTOR ELECTIONS95,08084,8575,0195.8%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES6,6814,9028957.7%
AUDIT-RELATED11,87110,7254950.7%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES71652914838.9%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS8486861276.0%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE12,95610,4641,3287.2%
COMPENSATION17,64113,1023,24413.7%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE22,45315,6102,2778.3%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE1,19045971636.6%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE74634339436.4%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION77633143737.6%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES1,77579193333.8%
OTHER11,0787,7241,3186.0%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 2024178,8677.3%84.5%38.3%
year to 30 June 2025193,4926.9%85.7%34.4%
year to 30 June 2026177,3184.9%85.3%49.3%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, Brighthouse Funds voted against management on 238 of the 2,468 it marked either way (9.6%) in the year to 30 June 2024. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 1 say-on-pay item was reported without a management mark and are left out of both sides of that fraction.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 1,234 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, Brighthouse Funds voted for 514 (41.7%). The 40 at the companies with the most reporting filers are listed. Titles are the most common wording among filers; where a wording could name a person, the SEC category is printed instead.

CompanyMeetingProposal
Apple Inc.28 Feb 2024A shareholder proposal requesting a report on the use of Al
NVIDIA Corporation26 Jun 2024Advisory approval of a stockholder proposal to replace the supermajority voting provisions in our charter...
Merck & Co., Inc.28 May 2024Shareholder proposal regarding a shareholder right to act by written consent
AbbVie Inc.3 May 2024Stockholder Proposal - to Implement Simple Majority Vote
The Procter & Gamble Company10 Oct 2023Shareholder Proposal - Request to Require Shareholder Approval for Certain Future Amendments to Company...
Bank of America Corporation24 Apr 2024Shareholder proposal requesting right to act by written consent
Verizon Communications Inc.9 May 2024Amend clawback policy
Verizon Communications Inc.9 May 2024Lobbying activities report
Verizon Communications Inc.9 May 2024Independent Board chair
Netflix, Inc.6 Jun 2024Stockholder proposal entitled, "Proposal 8 - Special Shareholder Meeting Improvement,"
Oracle Corporation15 Nov 2023Stockholder Proposal Regarding Pay Gap Report
Tesla, Inc.13 Jun 2024A stockholder proposal regarding annual reporting on anti-harassment and discrimination efforts
Tesla, Inc.13 Jun 2024A stockholder proposal regarding simple majority voting provisions in our governing documents
Danaher Corporation7 May 2024Reduce Ownership Threshold for Shareholders to Call Special Meeting
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company7 May 2024Adopt Share Retention Policy For Senior Executives
NextEra Energy, Inc.23 May 2024A proposal entitled "Climate Lobbying Report" requesting a report on the Company's lobbying and trade...
NextEra Energy, Inc.23 May 2024Disclose Board Skills and Diversity Matrix
ConocoPhillips14 May 2024Simple Majority Vote.
Texas Instruments Incorporated25 Apr 2024Stockholder proposal to permit a combined 15% of stockholders to call a special meeting.
International Business Machines Corporation30 Apr 2024Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Right to Act by Written Consent
International Business Machines Corporation30 Apr 2024Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Public Report on Climate Lobbying
International Business Machines Corporation30 Apr 2024Stockholder Proposal Requesting the Adoption of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets
International Business Machines Corporation30 Apr 2024Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Public Report on Lobbying Activities
RTX CORPORATION2 May 2024Shareowner Proposal Requesting a Report on Full Value Chain Emissions Reduction Plan
RTX CORPORATION2 May 2024Shareowner Proposal Requesting a Lobbying Transparency Report
American Tower Corporation22 May 2024To consider a stockholder proposal, if properly presented, regarding the ownership threshold required to...
American Tower Corporation22 May 2024To consider a stockholder proposal, if properly presented, regarding disclosure of racial and gender pay gaps.
United Parcel Service, Inc.2 May 2024To take steps to reduce the voting power of UPS class A stock from 10 votes per share to one vote per share.
Deere & Company28 Feb 2024Shareholder proposal regarding shareholder ratification of golden parachutes
ServiceNow, Inc.23 May 2024Shareholder proposal regarding simple majority vote.
Gilead Sciences, Inc.8 May 2024To vote on a stockholder proposal requesting that the Board adopt a policy requiring the Company's named...
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION2 May 2024Stockholder Proposal Requesting Reduction in Threshold to Call Special Stockholder Meetings
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION2 May 2024Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Report on Reducing Full Value Chain GHG Emissions
Citigroup Inc.30 Apr 2024Stockholder proposal requesting an Independent Board Chairman policy.
Colgate-Palmolive Company10 May 2024Stockholder proposal on independent Board Chairman.
Morgan Stanley23 May 2024Shareholder proposal regarding transparency in lobbying
Booking Holdings Inc.4 Jun 2024Stockholder proposal requesting a non-binding stockholder vote to amend the Company's clawback policy.
Prologis, Inc.9 May 2024Vote on a stockholder proposal titled "Simple Majority Vote."
THE BOEING COMPANY17 May 2024Racial and Gender Pay Gap Disclosure.
THE BOEING COMPANY17 May 2024Adoption of Value Chain Emission Reduction Target.

Shares on loan

Brighthouse Funds reported 1.47 billion shares on loan at record dates against 20.96 billion shares voted: 6.55% of the two together. Median family: 1.34%. Shares lent out at the record date cannot be voted by the lender, which is why Form N-PX asks for the figure. More on lending and votes.

Questions

How did Brighthouse Funds vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2024 Brighthouse Funds reported 5,799 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 4,902 were for (84.5%), 895 against and 2 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 238 of the 2,468 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 1 say-on-pay item was reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does Brighthouse Funds vote against management?

7.3% of the time in the year to 30 June 2024: 12,088 of the 164,781 votes it marked as for or against management. Form N-PX asks each filer to state, vote by vote, whether the vote was for or against management's recommendation; this figure counts those marks.

Did Brighthouse Funds support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 898 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2024 and voted for 193 of them (21.5%). Across every category it voted for 38.3% of security-holder proposals. Filers choose the category for each vote, so the same proposal can sit in different categories in different filings.

Is this the result of the meetings?

No. Form N-PX shows how this filer voted the shares it held. It does not show how other shareholders voted or whether a proposal was approved. Companies report certified results separately, on Form 8-K.

Where does the data come from?

From the Form N-PX filings of the registrants and managers grouped under this family on the SEC's EDGAR system, read as filed. The SEC does not verify the contents. Amended filings (N-PX/A) replace the filings they amend. Data on this page runs through 23 Sep 2026.

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Provenance: SEC EDGAR, Form N-PX and N-PX/A filings of the filers grouped under Brighthouse Funds, read as filed and not verified by the SEC. Filings read through 23 Sep 2026; page built 26 Sep 2026.