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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 1329954

John Hancock Funds III

fund voting report, part of John Hancock and Manulife

Vote records reported
6,496year to 30 June 2026
Against management
5.7%337 of 5,957 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
92.5%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
34.5%for, of for + against + abstain
92.7% for5.8% against1.6% other5.7% against management5,964 votes

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

In its Form N-PX for the year to 30 June 2026, John Hancock Funds III listed 6,496 vote records. Votes against management made up 5.7% of those marked either way (337 of 5,957); the median fund registrant stood at 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 5.6%. 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 92.5% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 34.5% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (41.5% of 41), CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (15.0% of 545) and SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES (8.0% of 399).

It reported 82.5 million shares out on loan at record dates, 0.81% 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 share5.7%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate92.5%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate34.5%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held0.81%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%

Of the 6,496 vote records in this filing, 532 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 ELECTIONS3,7103,5291054.8%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES400360298.0%
AUDIT-RELATED45344830.4%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES4233741.5%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS292900.0%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE388376123.1%
COMPENSATION213194195.6%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE5465093315.0%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE534487.5%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE413387.3%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION8080.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES10727796.5%
OTHER13512493.7%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20247,0325.8%95.2%28.9%
year to 30 June 20256,7785.3%92.7%24.4%
year to 30 June 20266,4965.7%92.5%34.5%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, John Hancock Funds III voted against management on 22 of the 308 it marked either way (7.1%) in the year to 30 June 2026.

A further 3 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 205 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, John Hancock Funds III voted for 72 (35.1%). 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
Amazon.com, Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting a mandatory independent board chair policy
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
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,"
The Home Depot, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Independent Board Chair
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
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
International Business Machines Corporation28 Apr 2026Stockholder Proposal Requesting a 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.
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 "Independent Report on Due Diligence Process,"
PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.3 Jun 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Political Spending Disclosure,"
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION12 May 2026Stockholder Proposal Requiring Independent Board Chairman
Micron Technology, Inc.15 Jan 2026Reduce Ownership Threshold for Shareholders to Call Special 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.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding annual vote regarding executive pay.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results by share class.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding dual class capital structure.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding report on Al data usage oversight.
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.
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.15 May 2026A stockholder proposal regarding independent board chairman
The Cigna Group22 Apr 2026Shareholder Proposal - Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent
Cummins Inc.12 May 2026Shareholder proposal to adopt a policy for separation of the roles of Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer.

Shares on loan

John Hancock Funds III reported 82.5 million shares on loan at record dates against 10.04 billion shares voted: 0.81% 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

5 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
John Hancock Global Shareholder Yield Fund2,0052.7%92.4%19.0%
John Hancock Disciplined Value Mid Cap Fund1,6218.6%94.0%85.3%
John Hancock Disciplined Value Fund1,1956.9%88.9%38.8%
John Hancock International Growth Fund1,1173.1%100.0%not reported
John Hancock U.S. Growth Fund5587.4%89.7%27.1%

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 John Hancock Funds III vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 John Hancock Funds III reported 386 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 357 were for (92.5%), 29 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 22 of the 308 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 3 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does John Hancock Funds III vote against management?

5.7% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 337 of the 5,957 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 Funds III support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 52 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 3 of them (5.8%). Across every category it voted for 34.5% 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 John Hancock Funds III (filer no. 1329954), 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.