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Brighthouse Funds

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Vote records reported
193,492year to 30 June 2025
Against management
6.9%12,221 of 178,380 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
85.7%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
34.4%for, of for + against + abstain
83.0% for8.3% against8.7% other6.9% against management194,064 votes

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

Brighthouse Funds reported 193,492 vote records for the year to 30 June 2025. It marked 6.9% of its votes as cast against management (12,221 of 178,380), close to the median of the fund families tracked here, which was 7.6%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 2.8%. 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 85.7% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median of the fund families tracked here: 88.8%) and it voted for 34.4% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median of the fund families tracked here: 29.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE (42.3% of 1,252), DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (34.6% of 757) and SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (29.3% of 758).

It reported 1.37 billion shares out on loan at record dates, 5.95% 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 2025This familyMedian familyAll filers pooled
Against-management share6.9%7.6%9.7%
Say-on-pay support rate85.7%88.8%84.3%
Shareholder-proposal support rate34.4%29.5%33.0%
Shares on loan, share of shares held5.95%0.85%2.20%
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 ELECTIONS102,87991,9675,1075.3%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES7,0235,57192211.5%
AUDIT-RELATED13,61412,2275493.7%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS111010.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES87763419129.3%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS1,1431,029712.0%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE17,74614,9451,6135.5%
COMPENSATION18,28613,9053,19912.8%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE29,46821,3672,3755.6%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE1,27137987642.3%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE54225028428.5%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION76924951034.6%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES1,64378481228.6%
OTHER3,4191,03381718.5%

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 242 of the 2,487 it marked either way (9.7%) in the year to 30 June 2025. 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 1,220 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, Brighthouse Funds voted for 453 (37.1%). 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
Microsoft Corporation10 Dec 2024Report on AI Data Sourcing Accountability
Meta Platforms, Inc.28 May 2025A shareholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results based on class of shares.
Meta Platforms, Inc.28 May 2025A shareholder proposal regarding report on hate targeting marginalized communities.
Meta Platforms, Inc.28 May 2025A shareholder proposal regarding report on Al data usage oversight.
Meta Platforms, Inc.28 May 2025A shareholder proposal regarding dual class capital structure.
AbbVie Inc.9 May 2025Stockholder Proposal - to Implement Simple Majority Vote
Netflix, Inc.5 Jun 2025Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Adobe Inc.22 Apr 2025Stockholder Proposal Regarding Vote on Golden Parachutes.
Intuitive Surgical, Inc.1 May 2025The stockholder proposal that is titled "requesting a shareholder approval requirement for excessive...
Intel Corporation6 May 2025Stockholder proposal requesting shareholder right to act by written consent
Gilead Sciences, Inc.7 May 2025To vote on a stockholder proposal requesting a comprehensive human rights policy and human rights due...
The Charles Schwab Corporation22 May 2025Stockholder proposal requesting declassification of the board of directors
DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION1 May 2025Shareholder proposal regarding support simple majority vote
United Parcel Service, Inc.8 May 2025To take steps to reduce the voting power of UPS class A stock from 10 votes per share to one vote per share.
PayPal Holdings, Inc.5 Jun 2025Stockholder Proposal - Reduce Threshold to Call Special Meetings of Stockholders.
Booking Holdings Inc.3 Jun 2025Reduce Ownership Threshold for Shareholders to Call Special Meeting
Boston Scientific Corporation1 May 2025Stockholder proposal titled "Support Simple Majority Vote."
FedEx Corporation23 Sep 2024Stockholder proposal regarding a Just Transition report.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated14 May 2025Shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, regarding excessive golden parachutes.
Phillips 6621 May 2025Shareholder proposal: SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES
Autodesk, Inc.16 Jul 2024To consider and vote upon a stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, to enable...
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.23 Jan 2025The Mantle Ridge Parties' proposal to repeal any provision of, or amendment to, the Bylaws that the Board...
General Mills, Inc.24 Sep 2024Shareholder Proposal - Disclosure of Regenerative Agriculture Practices Within Supply Chain.
General Mills, Inc.24 Sep 2024Shareholder Proposal - Plastic Packaging.
Capital One Financial Corporation8 May 2025Stockholder proposal to require a shareholder vote on golden parachute arrangements.
Marathon Petroleum Corporation30 Apr 2025Shareholder proposal to support a simple majority vote.
Prudential Financial, Inc.13 May 2025Shareholder proposal regarding an Independent Board Chairman.
Constellation Brands, Inc.17 Jul 2024Stockholder proposal on managing supply chain water risk.
Constellation Brands, Inc.17 Jul 2024Stockholder proposal on greenhouse gas emissions.
Marvell Technology, Inc.13 Jun 2025To consider and act on one stockholder proposal, entitled "Independent Board Chairman"
The Kraft Heinz Company8 May 2025Stockholder Proposal - Adopt policy on independent board chair
Delta Air Lines, Inc.19 Jun 2025A shareholder proposal requesting the ability for shareholders to act by written consent.
Moody's Corporation15 Apr 2025Stockholder proposal requesting stockholder ratification of certain executive severance arrangements.
Cintas Corporation29 Oct 2024A shareholder proposal regarding disclosure of key diversity and inclusion metric
Cintas Corporation29 Oct 2024A shareholder proposal regarding political disclosure
Fortinet, Inc.13 Jun 2025Corporate governance
Agilent Technologies, Inc.13 Mar 2025Declassify the Board of Directors
WEC Energy Group, Inc.8 May 2025Stockholder proposal to support simple majority vote
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.7 May 2025Declassify the Board of Directors
Xylem Inc.13 May 2025Shareholder proposal to lower threshold for shareholders to call special meetings from 25% to 10% of...

Shares on loan

Brighthouse Funds reported 1.37 billion shares on loan at record dates against 21.59 billion shares voted: 5.95% of the two together. Median family: 0.85%. 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 2025 Brighthouse Funds reported 6,497 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 5,571 were for (85.7%), 922 against and 4 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 242 of the 2,487 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?

6.9% of the time in the year to 30 June 2025: 12,221 of the 178,380 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 982 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2025 and voted for 113 of them (11.5%). Across every category it voted for 34.4% 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.