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Janus Henderson

Fund registrants and adviser entities grouped under Janus Henderson by this site's alias table

Vote records reported
35,124year to 30 June 2026
Against management
5.1%1,787 of 34,876 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
88.2%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
25.6%for, of for + against + abstain
91.0% for5.7% against3.3% other5.1% against management34,933 votes

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

Janus Henderson reported 35,124 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 5.1% of its votes as cast against management (1,787 of 34,876), 2.7 percentage points below the median of the fund families tracked here, which was 7.8%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 1.9%. 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 88.2% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median of the fund families tracked here: 88.2%) and it voted for 25.6% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median of the fund families tracked here: 30.7%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (14.7% of 150), HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE (12.1% of 198) and CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (11.9% of 2,671).

It reported 73.9 million shares out on loan at record dates, 0.28% 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 2026This familyMedian familyAll filers pooled
Against-management share5.1%7.8%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate88.2%88.2%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate25.6%30.7%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held0.28%1.53%3.12%
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%

Of the 35,124 vote records in this filing, 3,561 carry something the form does not expect: a missing vote source or category, a record with no vote line, a meeting date that cannot be read, or a security identifier this site could not use. They are counted as filed. What is checked

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 ELECTIONS20,05919,1042383.1%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES5,3894,45859111.4%
AUDIT-RELATED2,5862,58050.1%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS55000.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES1501123814.7%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS156144117.7%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE1,5951,531614.4%
COMPENSATION1,7811,6331316.7%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE2,6992,36232211.9%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE351562943.1%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE1984514412.1%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION191371534.2%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES5461094363.7%
OTHER5738192.3%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 202441,2125.5%89.6%19.7%
year to 30 June 202537,5615.9%90.4%22.6%
year to 30 June 202635,1245.1%88.2%25.6%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, Janus Henderson voted against management on 74 of the 1,035 it marked either way (7.1%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 5 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are left out of both sides of that fraction.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 275 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, Janus Henderson voted for 78 (28.4%). 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
JPMorgan Chase & Co.19 May 2026Independent board chairman
Johnson & Johnson23 Apr 2026Independent Board Chair
Eli Lilly and Company4 May 2026Shareholder proposal to adopt a policy and amend the bylaws to require an independent board chair.
AbbVie Inc.8 May 2026Stockholder Proposal - to Adopt a Policy to Require an Independent Chair
The Home Depot, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Independent Board Chair
CHEVRON CORPORATION27 May 2026Adopt an Independent Chair
Bank of America Corporation4 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting independent board chair
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025A shareholder proposal to seek shareholder approval before adopting an amendment to the bylaws pursuant to...
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025Declassify the Board of Directors
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
McDonald's Corporation20 May 2026Advisory Vote to Adopt Policy for an Independent Chair.
Verizon Communications Inc.21 May 2026Independent board chair
NextEra Energy, Inc.21 May 2026Report on Plans to Reduce and Align GHG Emissions with Paris Agreement Goals
Amgen Inc.19 May 2026Stockholder proposal to require an independent board chairman.
Texas Instruments Incorporated16 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal to permit stockholders to act by written consent.
ConocoPhillips12 May 2026Stockholder Proposal - Independent Board Chairman.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.29 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Lobbying Disclosure
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.29 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Special Shareholder Meeting Thresholds
Morgan Stanley14 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting an independent Board Chairman
Gilead Sciences, Inc.30 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal requesting an independent Board Chair policy
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION12 May 2026Stockholder Proposal Requiring Independent Board Chairman
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.9 Dec 2025To consider and vote upon a shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, regarding...
Colgate-Palmolive Company8 May 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Independent Board Chairman."
Boston Scientific Corporation30 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal titled "Give Shareholders the Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting."
THE SOUTHERN COMPANY13 May 2026Stockholder proposal regarding independent board chairman
Target Corporation10 Jun 2026Require Independent Board Chair
Cummins Inc.12 May 2026Shareholder proposal to adopt a policy for separation of the roles of Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer.
The Travelers Companies, Inc.20 May 2026Require Independent Board Chair
L3Harris Technologies, Inc.11 May 2026Shareholder Proposal titled "Improve Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting".
Northrop Grumman Corporation20 May 2026Shareholder proposal to provide for an independent Board chair.
Synopsys, Inc.16 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal regarding 'stockholders' right to act by written consent
Snowflake Inc.29 Jun 2026To consider and vote on, if properly presented at the meeting, a non-binding stockholder proposal...
Yum! Brands, Inc.14 May 2026Shareholder Proposal to Reduce the Percentage of Shares Required to Call a Special Meeting.
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.12 May 2026Shareholder Proposal to Give Shareholders the Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting (Proposal...
Equinix, Inc.13 May 2026Consideration and vote upon a stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, related...
Fiserv, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting an independent board chair policy.
AppLovin Corporation3 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results by class of shares
WEC Energy Group, Inc.7 May 2026Stockholder proposal to govern by majority vote
The Hartford Insurance Group, Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal that the Company adopt written consent rights for shareholders
Datadog, Inc.15 Jun 2026The stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, requesting the adoption of a simple...

Shares on loan

Janus Henderson reported 73.9 million shares on loan at record dates against 26.48 billion shares voted: 0.28% of the two together. Median family: 1.53%. 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.

Filers grouped under this family

Grouping is by registrant and manager name, from a hand-maintained table. See the methodology.

FilerTypeVote records, year to 30 June 2026
JANUS INVESTMENT FUNDfund registrant20,039
JANUS ASPEN SERIESfund registrant7,576
Janus Detroit Street Trustfund registrant4,504
Janus Henderson Group Ltd.institutional manager3,005

Questions

How did Janus Henderson vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 Janus Henderson reported 5,055 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 4,458 were for (88.2%), 591 against and 6 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 74 of the 1,035 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 5 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does Janus Henderson vote against management?

5.1% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 1,787 of the 34,876 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 Janus Henderson support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 304 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 10 of them (3.3%). Across every category it voted for 25.6% 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.

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