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MassMutual

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

Vote records reported
60,498year to 30 June 2026
Against management
4.8%2,902 of 60,325 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
92.2%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
24.1%for, of for + against + abstain
92.1% for6.1% against1.8% other4.8% against management60,533 votes

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

In its Form N-PX for the year to 30 June 2026, MassMutual listed 60,498 vote records. Votes against management made up 4.8% of those marked either way (2,902 of 60,325); the median of the fund families tracked here stood at 7.8%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 4.8%. 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 92.2% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median of the fund families tracked here: 88.2%) and it voted for 24.1% 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 (33.0% of 288), CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (13.2% of 4,075) and COMPENSATION (9.8% of 2,653).

It reported 169.4 million shares out on loan at record dates, 5.75% 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 share4.8%7.8%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate92.2%88.2%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate24.1%30.7%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held5.75%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%

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 ELECTIONS38,00736,6667203.4%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES7,6456,6475657.8%
AUDIT-RELATED4,5144,495140.3%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES2892265733.0%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS305289163.6%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE2,1852,138453.7%
COMPENSATION2,6892,3822959.8%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE4,1693,22592413.2%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE614775373.9%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE269552144.1%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION333492841.5%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES8581407185.0%
OTHER5645112.5%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 2024120,2075.5%92.4%26.0%
year to 30 June 202599,9265.9%90.3%31.5%
year to 30 June 202660,4984.8%92.2%24.1%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, MassMutual voted against management on 162 of the 2,338 it marked either way (6.9%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 22 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 442 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, MassMutual voted for 128 (29.0%). 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
JPMorgan Chase & Co.19 May 2026Independent board chairman
Johnson & Johnson23 Apr 2026Independent Board Chair
Netflix, Inc.4 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled, "Proposal 4 - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent,"
Bank of America Corporation4 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting independent board chair
PEPSICO, INC.6 May 2026Shareholder Proposal - Independent Board Chair.
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025Declassify the Board of Directors
QUALCOMM Incorporated17 Mar 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Meeting."
AT&T INC.14 May 2026EEO-1 Report Disclosure Policy
Wells Fargo & Company28 Apr 2026Require Independent Board Chair
Wells Fargo & Company28 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal - Govern by Majority Vote.
Amgen Inc.19 May 2026Stockholder proposal to require an 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
Lowe's Companies, Inc.29 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
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...
Starbucks Corporation25 Mar 2026Shareholder proposal requesting adoption of an independent board chair policy
THE BOEING COMPANY17 Apr 2026Action by Written Consent.
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.9 Dec 2025To consider and vote upon a shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, regarding...
CVS Health Corporation14 May 2026Stockholder Proposal for Reducing the Threshold for Our Stockholder Right to Act By Written Consent.
Mondelez International, Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting adoption of an independent board chairman policy
Boston Scientific Corporation30 Apr 2026Stockholder proposal titled "Give Shareholders the Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting."
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding annual vote regarding executive pay.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding dual class capital structure.
United Parcel Service, Inc.7 May 2026To take steps to reduce the voting power of UPS class A stock from 10 votes per share to one vote per share.
Target Corporation10 Jun 2026Require Independent Board Chair
PayPal Holdings, Inc.19 May 2026Stockholder Proposal - Reduce Threshold to Call Special Meetings of Stockholders.
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".
FORD MOTOR COMPANY14 May 2026A shareholder proposal relating to a request that the Board take steps to implement one vote per share for...
FORD MOTOR COMPANY14 May 2026A shareholder proposal relating to public disclosure by share class of voting results on matters subject...
Northrop Grumman Corporation20 May 2026Shareholder proposal to provide for an independent Board chair.
Sysco Corporation14 Nov 2025Adopt Mandatory Policy Separating the Roles of CEO and Board Chair
General Motors Company2 Jun 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Separation of Chair and CEO Roles
Marvell Technology, Inc.25 Jun 2026To consider and act on one stockholder proposal, entitled "Independent Board Chairman"

Shares on loan

MassMutual reported 169.4 million shares on loan at record dates against 2.78 billion shares voted: 5.75% 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
MML SERIES INVESTMENT FUNDfund registrant31,507
MASSMUTUAL SELECT FUNDSfund registrant19,549
MML Series Investment Fund IIfund registrant3,771
MASSMUTUAL PREMIER FUNDSfund registrant2,226
MassMutual Private Wealth & Trust, FSBinstitutional manager2,196
BARINGS LLCinstitutional manager1,244
BARINGS GLOBAL SHORT DURATION HIGH YIELD FUNDfund registrant3
MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COinstitutional manager2
MassMutual Advantage Fundsfund registrant0

Questions

How did MassMutual vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 MassMutual reported 7,211 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 6,647 were for (92.2%), 564 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 162 of the 2,338 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 22 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does MassMutual vote against management?

4.8% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 2,902 of the 60,325 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 MassMutual support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 561 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 24 of them (4.3%). Across every category it voted for 24.1% 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.