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Form N-PX · fund family · year to 30 June 202420 filers grouped

John Hancock and Manulife

One season of the John Hancock and Manulife record. The family page shows the latest season.

Vote records reported
507,426year to 30 June 2024
Against management
13.0%56,982 of 438,658 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
84.7%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
40.7%for, of for + against + abstain
85.8% for10.1% against4.1% other13.0% against management440,101 votes

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

John Hancock and Manulife reported 507,426 vote records for the year to 30 June 2024. It marked 13.0% of its votes as cast against management (56,982 of 438,658), 4.4 percentage points above the median of the fund families tracked here, which was 8.5%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 9.9%. 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 84.7% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median of the fund families tracked here: 89.0%) and it voted for 40.7% 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 (54.9% of 2,343), DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (49.0% of 451) and HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE (42.5% of 1,072).

It reported 734.3 million shares out on loan at record dates, 1.23% 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 share13.0%8.5%10.2%
Say-on-pay support rate84.7%89.0%84.6%
Shareholder-proposal support rate40.7%35.1%37.0%
Shares on loan, share of shares held1.23%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%

Of the 507,426 vote records in this filing, 74,135 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 ELECTIONS212,746188,15612,64011.3%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES29,30722,0993,97715.7%
AUDIT-RELATED34,99633,8979133.0%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS171700.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES2,4871,43355854.9%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS10,1508,7271,40913.9%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE48,69642,8055,79812.1%
COMPENSATION27,25221,3535,82220.5%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE46,51236,4159,34721.3%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE1,8427791,04942.0%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE1,07446660542.5%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION45122123049.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES4,2752,1262,12722.6%
OTHER30,32526,7012,23710.8%

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 889 of the 4,640 it marked either way (19.2%) in the year to 30 June 2024. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 371 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 969 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 427 (44.1%). 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 Corporation7 Dec 2023Report on AI Misinformation and Disinformation
Microsoft Corporation7 Dec 2023Report on Tax Transparency
Amazon.com, Inc.22 May 2024Report on Median and Adjusted Gender/Racial Pay Gaps
Amazon.com, Inc.22 May 2024Disclose All Material Scope 3 GHG Emissions
Amazon.com, Inc.22 May 2024Commission Third Party Assessment on Company's Commitment to Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining
Amazon.com, Inc.22 May 2024Report on Lobbying Payments and Policy
Amazon.com, Inc.22 May 2024Commission a Third Party Audit on Working Conditions
Apple Inc.28 Feb 2024A shareholder proposal entitled "Racial and Gender Pay Gaps"
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...
JPMorgan Chase & Co.21 May 2024Independent board chairman
Merck & Co., Inc.28 May 2024Shareholder proposal regarding a shareholder right to act by written consent
The Home Depot, Inc.16 May 2024Shareholder Proposal Regarding Enhancements to the Company's Clawback Policy
The Home Depot, Inc.16 May 2024Shareholder Proposal Regarding Political Contributions Congruency Analysis
The Home Depot, Inc.16 May 2024Shareholder Proposal Regarding a Report on Biodiversity Impact and Dependency Assessment
AbbVie Inc.3 May 2024Stockholder Proposal - to Implement Simple Majority Vote
AbbVie Inc.3 May 2024Stockholder Proposal - to Issue a Report on Patent Process
Adobe Inc.17 Apr 2024Stockholder Proposal - Reporting on Hiring of Persons with Arrest or Incarceration Records.
EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION29 May 2024Additional Pay Report on Gender and Racial Basis
EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION29 May 2024Shareholder proposal: ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE
CHEVRON CORPORATION29 May 2024Commission a Third-Party Report on Human Rights Practices
CHEVRON CORPORATION29 May 2024Report on Plastic Demand Scenario
CHEVRON CORPORATION29 May 2024Report on Tax Practices
The Procter & Gamble Company10 Oct 2023Shareholder Proposal - Request to Require Shareholder Approval for Certain Future Amendments to Company...
Salesforce, Inc.27 Jun 2024Require Independent Board Chair
PEPSICO, INC.1 May 2024Shareholder Proposal - Report on Risks Related to Biodiversity and Nature Loss.
PEPSICO, INC.1 May 2024Shareholder Proposal - Third-Party Racial Equity Audit.
PEPSICO, INC.1 May 2024Shareholder Proposal - Third-Party Assessment on Non-Sugar Sweetener Risks.
PEPSICO, INC.1 May 2024Shareholder Proposal - Global Transparency Report.
Bank of America Corporation24 Apr 2024Shareholder proposal requesting right to act by written consent
Bank of America Corporation24 Apr 2024Report on Climate Lobbying
Bank of America Corporation24 Apr 2024Shareholder proposal requesting disclosure of clean energy financing ratio
Bank of America Corporation24 Apr 2024Shareholder proposal requesting independent board chair
The Walt Disney Company3 Apr 2024Shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, requesting a report on political expenditures.
Walmart Inc.5 Jun 2024Publication of Targets for Transitioning from Gestation Crates in Pork Supply Chain
Walmart Inc.5 Jun 2024Workplace Safety & Violence Review
Comcast Corporation10 Jun 2024Report on political expenditures misalignment with company values
The Coca-Cola Company1 May 2024Vote on a shareowner proposal requesting a report on non-sugar sweeteners
The Coca-Cola Company1 May 2024Vote on a shareowner proposal requesting a report on risks caused by the decline in the quality of...
Verizon Communications Inc.9 May 2024Political expenditures misalignment

Shares on loan

John Hancock and Manulife reported 734.3 million shares on loan at record dates against 59.08 billion shares voted: 1.23% 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 John Hancock and Manulife vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2024 John Hancock and Manulife reported 26,093 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 22,098 were for (84.7%), 3,977 against and 18 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 889 of the 4,640 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 371 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?

13.0% of the time in the year to 30 June 2024: 56,982 of the 438,658 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 1,716 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2024 and voted for 712 of them (41.5%). Across every category it voted for 40.7% 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 John Hancock and Manulife, read as filed and not verified by the SEC. Filings read through 23 Sep 2026; page built 26 Sep 2026.