COLUMBIA ACORN TRUST

fund voting report, part of Columbia Threadneedle

Vote records reported: 4,485year to 30 June 2026
Against management: 5.9%263 of 4,451 marked votes
Say-on-pay support: 85.5%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support: 67.6%for, of for + against + abstain

93.6% for5.2% against1.2% other5.9% against management4,485 votes

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

COLUMBIA ACORN TRUST reported 4,485 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 5.9% of its votes as cast against management (263 of 4,451), close to the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 5.5%. 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 85.5% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 67.6% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES (14.3% of 91), COMPENSATION (11.2% of 599) and DIRECTOR ELECTIONS (6.5% of 2,005).

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 2026	This filer	Median fund registrant	All filers pooled
Against-management share	5.9%	6.2%	10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate	85.5%	91.6%	86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate	67.6%	27.5%	33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held	0.00%	0.00%	3.12%

Largest families, year to 30 June 2026	Against management	Say-on-pay support	Shareholder-proposal support
Vanguard	20.1%	94.1%	42.0%
BlackRock and iShares	7.5%	88.3%	11.9%
Fidelity	6.0%	94.7%	27.6%
Dimensional	16.4%	78.9%	57.4%
State Street and SPDR	16.9%	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)	Votes	For	Against	Against management
DIRECTOR ELECTIONS	2,018	1,881	91	6.5%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES	91	71	12	14.3%
AUDIT-RELATED	369	363	6	0.3%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS	1	1	0	0.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES	6	6	0	0.0%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS	20	20	0	0.0%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE	729	711	18	2.5%
COMPENSATION	604	536	68	11.2%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE	746	693	49	5.8%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE	25	24	1	4.0%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE	21	21	0	0.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION	21	21	0	0.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES	62	61	1	1.6%
OTHER	4	4	0	0.0%

By season

Season	Vote records	Against management	Say-on-pay support	Shareholder-proposal support
year to 30 June 2024	3,873	8.7%	78.9%	60.6%
year to 30 June 2025	4,372	6.2%	78.8%	57.9%
year to 30 June 2026	4,485	5.9%	85.5%	67.6%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, COLUMBIA ACORN TRUST voted against management on 12 of the 81 it marked either way (14.8%) in the year to 30 June 2026.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation 7 May 2026
The Carlyle Group Inc. 3 Jun 2026
Antero Resources Corporation 3 Jun 2026
Wingstop Inc. 21 May 2026
Paylocity Holding Corporation 4 Dec 2025
SiTime Corporation 29 May 2026
DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. 15 Jun 2026
Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 24 Jun 2026
Workiva Inc. 28 May 2026
The Pennant Group, Inc. 14 May 2026
Miami International Holdings, Inc. 16 Jun 2026
NIQ Global Intelligence plc 21 May 2026

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 25 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, COLUMBIA ACORN TRUST voted for 16 (64.0%). Titles are the most common wording among filers; where a wording could name a person, the SEC category is printed instead.

Company	Meeting	Proposal
Marvell Technology, Inc.	25 Jun 2026	To consider and act on one stockholder proposal, entitled "Independent Board Chairman"
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc.	18 Jun 2026	Vote on a shareholder proposal regarding a report on greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc.	12 May 2026	Vote on a stockholder proposal regarding support for transparency in political spending.
Galp Energia SGPS SA	8 May 2026	Appraise Management and Supervision of Company and Approve Vote of Confidence to Corporate Bodies
Buzzi SpA	13 May 2026	Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Buzzi SpA	13 May 2026	Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Buzzi SpA	13 May 2026	Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Buzzi SpA	13 May 2026	Fix Board Terms for Directors
Buzzi SpA	13 May 2026	Fix Number of Directors
Saipem SpA	12 May 2026	Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Saipem SpA	12 May 2026	Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Saipem SpA	12 May 2026	Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Hera SpA	29 Apr 2026	Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
SOL SpA	12 May 2026	Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
SOL SpA	12 May 2026	Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
SOL SpA	12 May 2026	Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED

Shares on loan

COLUMBIA ACORN TRUST reported no shares on loan for the year to 30 June 2026. 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

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

Series	Vote records	Against management	Say-on-pay support	Shareholder-proposal support
Columbia Acorn European Fund	1,788	6.2%	not reported	68.4%
Columbia Acorn International Select	993	3.5%	not reported	not reported
Columbia Acorn International	956	5.9%	not reported	not reported
Columbia Acorn Fund	748	8.3%	84.8%	60.0%

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.

N-PX filed 18 Aug 2026 accession 0001193125-26-355137
Every N-PX filing by this filer on EDGAR

Questions

How did COLUMBIA ACORN TRUST vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 COLUMBIA ACORN TRUST reported 83 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 71 were for (85.5%), 12 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 12 of the 81 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

How often does COLUMBIA ACORN TRUST vote against management?

5.9% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 263 of the 4,451 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 COLUMBIA ACORN TRUST support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 2 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 1 of them (50.0%). Across every category it voted for 67.6% 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 COLUMBIA ACORN TRUST (filer no. 2110), 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.