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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 22370

JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUST

fund voting report, part of John Hancock and Manulife

Vote records reported
13,345year to 30 June 2026
Against management
7.1%766 of 10,759 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
90.7%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
28.7%for, of for + against + abstain
91.0% for6.8% against2.1% other7.1% against management10,850 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 INVESTMENT TRUST listed 13,345 vote records. Votes against management made up 7.1% of those marked either way (766 of 10,759); the median fund registrant stood at 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 10.3%. 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 90.7% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 28.7% 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 (45.3% of 75), ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE (15.2% of 66) and COMPENSATION (12.9% of 573).

It reported 423.9 million shares out on loan at record dates, 3.36% 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 share7.1%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate90.7%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate28.7%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held3.36%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 13,345 vote records in this filing, 2,495 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 ELECTIONS6,0305,6571916.0%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES647571589.4%
AUDIT-RELATED843828141.7%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES80451545.3%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS636034.8%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE1,021946757.6%
COMPENSATION5795037612.9%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE1,2431,09913010.5%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE66135015.2%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE5054510.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION150150.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES138568012.3%
OTHER437384475.5%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 202419,56611.1%83.1%44.6%
year to 30 June 202516,6798.3%83.8%23.7%
year to 30 June 202613,3457.1%90.7%28.7%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUST voted against management on 42 of the 491 it marked either way (8.6%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 18 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 197 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUST voted for 64 (32.5%). 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...
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal on shareholder right to act by written consent.
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal on report on online sexual exploitation.
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Require Independent Board Chair
The Procter & Gamble Company14 Oct 2025Shareholder Proposal Requesting Additional Reporting on Plastic Packaging
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
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
Lowe's Companies, Inc.29 May 2026Shareholder Proposal requesting a report on risks of sharing customer data with third parties.
Lowe's Companies, Inc.29 May 2026Shareholder Proposal requesting a report describing how the Company could disclose its plastic packaging...
Comcast Corporation10 Jun 2026Adopt policy to have an independent chair
Linde Plc29 Jul 2025A shareholder proposal requesting an annual report regarding the alignment of the Company's direct and...
S&P Global Inc.20 May 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal to reduce the stock ownership threshold for calling a special shareholder...
Starbucks Corporation25 Mar 2026Shareholder proposal requesting supermajority shareholder voting requirements be replaced with majority...
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION12 May 2026Stockholder Proposal Requiring Independent Board Chairman
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.9 Dec 2025To consider and vote upon a shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, regarding...
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.9 Dec 2025To consider and vote upon a shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, regarding a...
Analog Devices, Inc.11 Mar 2026To consider a shareholder proposal
EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION27 May 2026Proposal requesting Company to modify its Voluntary Retail Voting Program to provide multiple options not...
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 disclosure of voting results by share class.
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.
THE SOUTHERN COMPANY13 May 2026Stockholder proposal regarding a report on data center costs
Otis Worldwide Corporation27 May 2026Shareholder proposal regarding reporting on political contributions and expenditures
Synopsys, Inc.16 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal regarding 'stockholders' right to act by written consent
Marvell Technology, Inc.25 Jun 2026To consider and act on one stockholder proposal, entitled "Independent Board Chairman"
Datadog, Inc.15 Jun 2026The stockholder proposal, if properly presented at the Annual Meeting, requesting the adoption of a simple...
NRG Energy, Inc.30 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal to give shareholders the ability to call for a special shareholder meeting
Workday, Inc.16 Jun 2026To consider and vote upon a stockholder proposal regarding disclosure of voting results based on share class.
First Solar, Inc.13 May 2026Stockholder proposal to improve shareholder ability to call for a special shareholder meeting
ON Semiconductor Corporation14 May 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal regarding simple majority voting
Avery Dennison Corporation30 Apr 2026Require Independent Board Chair
Steel Dynamics, Inc.6 May 2026Shareholder proposal - avoid political spending brand damage
Carvana Co.5 May 2026To vote upon one stockholder proposal, as described in the Proxy Statement.

Shares on loan

JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUST reported 423.9 million shares on loan at record dates against 12.18 billion shares voted: 3.36% 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

12 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 Diversified Real Assets Fund5,1504.9%93.4%17.9%
Disciplined Value International Fund1,7194.1%98.1%38.5%
Emerging Markets Equity Fund1,00019.0%83.3%not reported
International Dynamic Growth Fund86114.2%100.0%72.7%
Fundamental Equity Income Fund8263.3%90.6%13.4%
JHF Global Environmental Opportunities Fund7362.6%95.3%50.0%
Small Cap Core Fund6839.1%91.3%87.5%
Fundamental Large Cap Core Fund6344.1%87.5%19.4%
Infrastructure Fund5631.0%96.0%4.2%
John Hancock Mid Cap Growth Fund5408.3%89.8%85.7%
John Hancock Global Climate Action Fund4466.3%93.1%35.4%
ESG Large Cap Core Fund18737.4%0.0%73.7%

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 INVESTMENT TRUST vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUST reported 626 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 568 were for (90.7%), 58 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 42 of the 491 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 18 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does JOHN HANCOCK INVESTMENT TRUST vote against management?

7.1% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 766 of the 10,759 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 INVESTMENT TRUST support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 58 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 7 of them (12.1%). Across every category it voted for 28.7% 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 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 INVESTMENT TRUST (filer no. 22370), 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.