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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 756913

JOHN HANCOCK VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST

fund voting report, part of John Hancock and Manulife

Vote records reported
208,651year to 30 June 2026
Against management
11.5%20,988 of 182,360 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
84.9%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
30.5%for, of for + against + abstain
87.4% for8.4% against4.2% other11.5% against management183,147 votes

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

JOHN HANCOCK VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST reported 208,651 vote records for the year to 30 June 2026. It marked 11.5% of its votes as cast against management (20,988 of 182,360), 5.3 percentage points above the median fund registrant, which was 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 11.1%. 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 84.9% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 30.5% 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 (60.0% of 20), SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES (39.8% of 739) and COMPENSATION (20.1% of 9,978).

It reported 176.6 million shares out on loan at record dates, 1.79% 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 share11.5%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate84.9%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate30.5%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held1.79%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 208,651 vote records in this filing, 25,522 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 ELECTIONS101,16590,3004,35810.6%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES13,03010,3591,83415.2%
AUDIT-RELATED16,07015,6373992.5%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS2081260.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES76150822639.8%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS2,7902,30148117.3%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE16,83814,8261,98211.8%
COMPENSATION10,0918,0232,05720.1%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE18,57215,0713,38818.1%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE432583699.1%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE302272759.0%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION560560.0%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES1,1866705057.1%
OTHER7,0176,2026318.6%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 2024238,46712.8%85.0%46.0%
year to 30 June 2025212,43110.6%85.9%26.2%
year to 30 June 2026208,65111.5%84.9%30.5%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, JOHN HANCOCK VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST voted against management on 820 of the 4,289 it marked either way (19.1%) in the year to 30 June 2026. The 40 companies with the most reporting filers are listed.

A further 181 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 796 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, JOHN HANCOCK VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST voted for 242 (30.4%). 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
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Human Rights Due Diligence
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Data Operations in Human Rights Hotspots
NVIDIA Corporation24 Jun 2026Approval of a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting the replacement of supermajority voting...
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding a report on AI data usage oversight
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,"
CHEVRON CORPORATION27 May 2026Report on Indigenous Peoples' Rights
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.
NextEra Energy, Inc.21 May 2026Report on Plans to Reduce and Align GHG Emissions with Paris Agreement Goals
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 "Human Rights Impact Assessment,"
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

Shares on loan

JOHN HANCOCK VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST reported 176.6 million shares on loan at record dates against 9.70 billion shares voted: 1.79% 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
International Small Company Trust46,28312.0%64.0%27.6%
International Equity Index Trust41,16014.7%88.3%6.6%
Strategic Equity Allocation Trust39,6469.6%88.0%36.4%
Total Stock Market Index Trust26,13512.2%87.6%45.2%
Small Cap Index Trust15,05313.9%87.1%56.7%
Small Cap Opportunities Trust10,10114.0%80.8%36.4%
500 Index Trust6,6076.2%90.7%40.2%
Mid Cap Index Trust4,1336.4%94.5%61.2%
Emerging Markets Value Trust2,25720.5%70.6%not reported
Small Company Value Trust1,8619.5%93.4%20.0%
Equity Income Trust1,7782.9%96.6%4.2%
Disciplined Value International Trust1,7194.1%98.1%38.5%
Health Sciences Trust1,4248.2%91.5%3.8%
Mid Value Trust1,4213.4%98.3%4.0%
Global Equity Trust1,2103.7%93.1%14.3%
Science & Technology Trust97410.5%94.9%15.9%
Fundamental Large Cap Value Trust8683.8%83.0%13.4%
Small Cap Stock Trust7975.6%91.0%not reported
Blue Chip Growth Trust7865.0%100.0%10.7%
Financial Industries Trust6964.8%87.8%34.5%
Capital Appreciation Value Trust6915.1%100.0%13.0%
Small Cap Value Trust6839.1%91.3%87.5%
Fundamental All Cap Core Trust6453.7%91.1%17.9%
Capital Appreciation Trust5657.5%87.5%27.1%
Mid Cap Growth Trust5408.3%89.8%85.7%
Real Estate Securities Trust3672.2%97.0%not reported
Opportunistic Fixed Income Trust7617.9%not reportednot reported
Managed Volatility Moderate Portfolio330.0%not reportednot reported
Managed Volatility Balanced Portfolio330.0%not reportednot reported
Managed Volatility Growth Portfolio330.0%not reportednot reported
Lifestyle Growth Portfolio300.0%not reportednot reported
Managed Volatility Conservative Portfolio280.0%not reportednot reported
Strategic Income Opportunities Trust180.0%not reportednot 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 JOHN HANCOCK VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 JOHN HANCOCK VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST reported 12,186 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 10,349 were for (84.9%), 1,834 against and 3 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 820 of the 4,289 say-on-pay items it marked either way. A further 181 say-on-pay items were reported without a management mark and are not counted in that figure.

How often does JOHN HANCOCK VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST vote against management?

11.5% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 20,988 of the 182,360 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 VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 395 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 28 of them (7.1%). Across every category it voted for 30.5% 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 VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST (filer no. 756913), 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.