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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 1064046

RYDEX VARIABLE TRUST

fund voting report, part of Guggenheim and Rydex

Vote records reported
62,161year to 30 June 2026
Against management
10.1%6,314 of 62,486 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
87.8%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
35.3%for, of for + against + abstain
88.4% for6.0% against5.7% other10.1% against management62,559 votes

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

In its Form N-PX for the year to 30 June 2026, RYDEX VARIABLE TRUST listed 62,161 vote records. Votes against management made up 10.1% of those marked either way (6,314 of 62,486); the median fund registrant stood at 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 6.8%. 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 87.8% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 35.3% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS (65.5% of 84), OTHER (39.3% of 56) and SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (28.8% of 222).

It reported 187,631 shares out on loan at record dates, 0.18% 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 1,241 fund registrants with at least 25 vote records in the season.

year to 30 June 2026This filerMedian fund registrantAll filers pooled
Against-management share10.1%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate87.8%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate35.3%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held0.18%0.00%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 ELECTIONS43,49939,4809589.2%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES5,6564,61364212.1%
AUDIT-RELATED5,6795,639230.7%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS84292865.5%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES2251853928.8%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS5944997814.6%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE1,0429608211.1%
COMPENSATION2,3181,72459124.4%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE2,9552,36957124.9%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE421323890.0%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE191281630.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION246282180.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES5981104888.0%
OTHER65123339.3%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 202464,61210.2%88.9%43.5%
year to 30 June 202561,8679.4%88.7%31.9%
year to 30 June 202662,16110.1%87.8%35.3%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, RYDEX VARIABLE TRUST voted against management on 307 of the 2,516 it marked either way (12.2%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 2 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 498 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, RYDEX VARIABLE TRUST voted for 186 (37.3%). 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
Mastercard Incorporated16 Jun 2026Consideration of a stockholder proposal regarding shareholder right to act by written consent
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,"
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
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.
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.
ServiceNow, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder proposal regarding shareholder right to act by written consent.
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
HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.22 May 2026Shareowner Proposal - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent.
Comcast Corporation10 Jun 2026Adopt policy to have an independent chair
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
CVS Health Corporation14 May 2026Stockholder Proposal for Reducing the Threshold for Our Stockholder Right to Act By Written Consent.
Booking Holdings Inc.2 Jun 2026Non-binding stockholder vote on a proposal to avoid brand damage due to corporate political spending.

Shares on loan

RYDEX VARIABLE TRUST reported 187,631 shares on loan at record dates against 101.4 million shares voted: 0.18% of the two together. Median fund registrant: 0.00%. 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.

Fund series in this filing

33 series reported votes. A vote record can list several series. Series with 500 or more vote records have their own page.

SeriesVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal support
VT RUSSELL 2000 1.5X STRATEGY FUND16,00714.5%86.7%53.1%
VT NOVA FUND6,5915.9%90.6%37.1%
VT S&P 500 2X STRATEGY FUND6,5915.9%90.6%37.1%
VT MID-CAP 1.5X STRATEGY FUND4,1166.1%94.5%54.0%
VT FINANCIAL SERVICES FUND1,9567.9%85.7%27.7%
VT S&P 500 PURE VALUE FUND1,7035.3%90.9%38.0%
VT S&P SMALLCAP 600 PURE VALUE FUND1,5706.3%95.3%75.0%
VT TECHNOLOGY FUND1,47615.1%75.8%38.4%
VT HEALTH CARE FUND1,4539.5%87.3%44.1%
VT NASDAQ-100 2X STRATEGY FUND1,33511.0%83.3%30.8%
VT NASDAQ-100 FUND1,33511.0%83.3%30.8%
VT BASIC MATERIALS FUND1,2483.7%95.8%80.0%
VT S&P MIDCAP 400 PURE VALUE FUND1,2333.8%97.1%42.3%
VT S&P SMALLCAP 600 PURE GROWTH FUND1,12811.7%87.7%not reported
VT BANKING FUND1,1003.6%90.0%7.8%
VT ENERGY FUND1,0635.2%97.1%28.6%
VT MULTI-HEDGE STRATEGIES FUND1,05241.6%68.0%not reported
VT LEISURE FUND1,01712.4%84.7%39.5%
VT REAL ESTATE FUND9524.9%89.4%not reported
VT S&P MIDCAP 400 PURE GROWTH FUND8928.0%92.9%80.0%
VT CONSUMER PRODUCTS FUND8828.7%91.5%20.6%
VT TRANSPORTATION FUND8557.6%88.3%43.3%
VT S&P 500 PURE GROWTH FUND78513.0%82.0%35.9%
VT INTERNET FUND78319.3%71.2%25.0%
VT RETAILING FUND6946.1%96.4%19.5%
VT UTILITIES FUND6763.1%100.0%44.4%
VT EUROPE 1.25X STRATEGY FUND6402.4%not reported0.0%
VT BIOTECHNOLOGY FUND62718.2%78.5%42.9%
VT ELECTRONICS FUND5968.1%82.7%59.1%
VT TELECOMMUNICATIONS FUND52910.4%73.5%45.5%
VT DOW 2X STRATEGY FUND4783.6%96.7%14.7%
VT PRECIOUS METALS FUND4511.6%85.7%not reported
VT ENERGY SERVICES FUND3478.1%96.4%not reported

The filings

These figures are read from the filer's own Form N-PX. If a vote on this page looks wrong, the filing is the record: a dispute about a filed vote is a matter for the filer, and an error in how this site read the filing is a matter for corrections.

Questions

How did RYDEX VARIABLE TRUST vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 RYDEX VARIABLE TRUST reported 5,255 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 4,613 were for (87.8%), 642 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 307 of the 2,516 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 2 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does RYDEX VARIABLE TRUST vote against management?

10.1% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 6,314 of the 62,486 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 RYDEX VARIABLE TRUST support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 389 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 0 of them (0.0%). Across every category it voted for 35.3% 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 this filer 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 by RYDEX VARIABLE TRUST (filer no. 1064046), read as filed and not verified by the SEC. Amended filings replace the filings they amend. Filings read through 23 Sep 2026; page built 26 Sep 2026.