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John Hancock and Manulife

Fund registrants and adviser entities grouped under John Hancock and Manulife by this site's alias table

Vote records reported
359,296year to 30 June 2026
Against management
11.3%35,664 of 316,170 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
86.1%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
29.3%for, of for + against + abstain
87.4% for8.9% against3.6% other11.3% against management317,395 votes

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

John Hancock and Manulife reported 359,296 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 11.3% of its votes as cast against management (35,664 of 316,170), 3.5 percentage points above the median of the fund families tracked here, which was 7.8%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 9.7%. 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 86.1% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median of the fund families tracked here: 88.2%) and it voted for 29.3% 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 INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS (50.0% of 30), SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (43.1% of 1,275) and EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS (20.6% of 6,745).

It reported 1.41 billion shares out on loan at record dates, 2.64% 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 share11.3%7.8%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate86.1%88.2%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate29.3%30.7%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held2.64%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 359,296 vote records in this filing, 48,339 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 ELECTIONS163,299147,2017,0969.8%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES25,42520,5223,30414.4%
AUDIT-RELATED25,25924,5136782.8%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS30151550.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES1,31984235643.1%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS6,7495,3521,37220.6%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE32,77828,7243,97812.3%
COMPENSATION17,84414,5973,22717.7%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE35,67428,5996,73918.7%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE96618476616.7%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE669576128.4%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION12911280.8%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES2,3731,1811,1609.9%
OTHER14,47812,9181,1838.2%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 2024507,42613.0%84.7%40.7%
year to 30 June 2025417,53410.3%85.5%25.7%
year to 30 June 2026359,29611.3%86.1%29.3%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, John Hancock and Manulife voted against management on 839 of the 4,350 it marked either way (19.3%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 172 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 796 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, John Hancock and Manulife voted for 235 (29.5%). 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
NVIDIA Corporation24 Jun 2026Approval of a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting the replacement of supermajority voting...
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding equal shareholder voting
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal on shareholder right to act by written consent.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.19 May 2026Independent board chairman
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
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled, "Proposal 4 - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent,"
CHEVRON CORPORATION27 May 2026Report on Indigenous Peoples' Rights
Bank of America Corporation4 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting independent board chair
The Coca-Cola Company29 Apr 2026Vote on a shareowner proposal requesting a sustainability committee by-law amendment
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
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.13 May 2026Stockholder proposal requesting changes to the stockholder right to call a special meeting.
McDonald's Corporation20 May 2026Advisory Vote on Shareholders' Right to Act by Written Consent.
NextEra Energy, Inc.21 May 2026Report on Plans to Reduce and Align GHG Emissions with Paris Agreement Goals
QUALCOMM Incorporated17 Mar 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Meeting."
International Business Machines Corporation28 Apr 2026Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Right to Act by Written Consent
CATERPILLAR INC.10 Jun 2026Shareholder Proposal - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent
AT&T INC.14 May 2026Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent
Wells Fargo & Company28 Apr 2026Require Independent Board Chair
Wells Fargo & Company28 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal - Govern by Majority Vote.
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 Special Shareholder Meeting Thresholds
Morgan Stanley14 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting an independent Board Chairman
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.22 May 2026Shareowner Proposal - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent.
Comcast Corporation10 Jun 2026Adopt policy to have an independent chair
Gilead Sciences, Inc.30 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal requesting an independent Board Chair policy
PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.3 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Human Rights Impact Assessment,"
PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.3 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Political Spending Disclosure,"
S&P Global Inc.20 May 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal to reduce the stock ownership threshold for calling a special shareholder...
Deere & Company25 Feb 2026Shareholder proposal on shareholder right to act by written consent
Starbucks Corporation25 Mar 2026Shareholder proposal requesting supermajority shareholder voting requirements be replaced with majority...
THE BOEING COMPANY17 Apr 2026Action by Written Consent.
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION12 May 2026Stockholder Proposal Requiring Independent Board Chairman
Micron Technology, Inc.15 Jan 2026Reduce Ownership Threshold for Shareholders to Call Special Meeting
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.9 Dec 2025To consider and vote upon a shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, regarding...
Lam Research Corporation4 Nov 2025Stockholder proposal titled "Realistic Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting,"
Analog Devices, Inc.11 Mar 2026To consider a shareholder proposal

Shares on loan

John Hancock and Manulife reported 1.41 billion shares on loan at record dates against 52.08 billion shares voted: 2.64% 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
JOHN HANCOCK VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUSTfund registrant208,651
John Hancock Funds IIfund registrant63,579
John Hancock Exchange-Traded Fund Trustfund registrant50,422
JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUSTfund registrant13,345
John Hancock Funds IIIfund registrant6,496
MANULIFE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT (US) LLCinstitutional manager6,402
John Hancock Diversified Income Fundfund registrant5,250
JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUST IIfund registrant1,770
JOHN HANCOCK FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITIES FUNDfund registrant1,355
JOHN HANCOCK CAPITAL SERIESfund registrant896
JOHN HANCOCK TAX-ADVANTAGED DIVIDEND INCOME FUNDfund registrant509
JOHN HANCOCK PREMIUM DIVIDEND FUNDfund registrant454
JOHN HANCOCK PREFERRED INCOME FUNDfund registrant51
JOHN HANCOCK PREFERRED INCOME FUND IIfund registrant51
JOHN HANCOCK PREFERRED INCOME FUND IIIfund registrant51
JOHN HANCOCK MUNICIPAL SECURITIES TRUSTfund registrant10
JOHN HANCOCK CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE INCOME FUNDfund registrant4
JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT LLCinstitutional manager0
JOHN HANCOCK LIFE INSURANCE CO USAinstitutional manager0
John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Global Shareholder Yield Fundfund registrant0

Questions

How did John Hancock and Manulife vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 John Hancock and Manulife reported 23,803 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 20,496 were for (86.1%), 3,304 against and 3 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 839 of the 4,350 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 172 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does John Hancock and Manulife vote against management?

11.3% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 35,664 of the 316,170 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 John Hancock and Manulife support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 885 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 126 of them (14.2%). Across every category it voted for 29.3% 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.

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.