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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 764797

DEUTSCHE DWS VARIABLE SERIES I

fund voting report, part of DWS

Vote records reported
5,440year to 30 June 2026
Against management
7.3%397 of 5,418 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
83.9%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
41.9%for, of for + against + abstain
91.5% for6.7% against1.8% other7.3% against management5,440 votes

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

In its Form N-PX for the year to 30 June 2026, DEUTSCHE DWS VARIABLE SERIES I listed 5,440 vote records. Votes against management made up 7.3% of those marked either way (397 of 5,418); the median fund registrant stood at 6.2%.

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 6.5%. 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 83.9% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 41.9% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES (30.5% of 95), HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE (28.1% of 32) and COMPENSATION (16.8% of 447).

It reported 5.4 million shares out on loan at record dates, 2.32% 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 share7.3%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate83.9%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate41.9%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held2.32%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 ELECTIONS3,1092,946845.1%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES2742144115.3%
AUDIT-RELATED38437951.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES1712529.4%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS383625.3%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE428413154.2%
COMPENSATION4503777316.8%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE6916316011.2%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE6915547.4%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE32171528.1%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION3411238.8%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES95494630.5%
OTHER15690.0%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20244,9679.6%86.0%59.1%
year to 30 June 20255,2307.9%89.9%42.4%
year to 30 June 20265,4407.3%83.9%41.9%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, DEUTSCHE DWS VARIABLE SERIES I voted against management on 33 of the 231 it marked either way (14.3%) in the year to 30 June 2026.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 182 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, DEUTSCHE DWS VARIABLE SERIES I voted for 75 (41.2%). 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 Al and Machine Learning Tools for Oil and Gas Development and Production
Microsoft Corporation5 Dec 2025Report on Al Data Usage Oversight
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 a report on AI-generated misinformation
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding a report on data privacy
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding AI Board 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.
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Shareholder proposal on report on online sexual exploitation.
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 prepare an annual lobbying report.
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 Report on Customer Data Privacy Risks
The Home Depot, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Report on Sufficiency of Associates' Access to Healthcare
Merck & Co., Inc.26 May 2026Shareholder proposal regarding a report on political contributions.
Bank of America Corporation4 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting independent board chair
Walmart Inc.4 Jun 2026Report on Workplace Health and Safety Governance
Walmart Inc.4 Jun 2026Human rights or human capital/workforce
Tesla, Inc.6 Nov 2025A shareholder proposal regarding adopting targets and reporting on metrics to assess the feasibility of...
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 2025A shareholder proposal requesting a child labor audit.
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.
QUALCOMM Incorporated17 Mar 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Meeting."
CATERPILLAR INC.10 Jun 2026Shareholder Proposal - Shareholder 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.
Linde Plc29 Jul 2025A shareholder proposal requesting an annual report regarding the alignment of the Company's direct and...
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...
THE BOEING COMPANY17 Apr 2026Action by Written Consent.
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION12 May 2026Stockholder Proposal Requiring Independent Board Chairman

Shares on loan

DEUTSCHE DWS VARIABLE SERIES I reported 5.4 million shares on loan at record dates against 226.3 million shares voted: 2.32% 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

4 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
DWS Global Small Cap VIP1,9146.8%90.8%42.1%
DWS CROCI International VIP1,4702.9%not reported6.9%
DWS Core Equity VIP1,2779.1%83.7%46.3%
DWS Capital Growth VIP77914.2%74.1%50.7%

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 DEUTSCHE DWS VARIABLE SERIES I vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 DEUTSCHE DWS VARIABLE SERIES I reported 255 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 214 were for (83.9%), 41 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 33 of the 231 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

How often does DEUTSCHE DWS VARIABLE SERIES I vote against management?

7.3% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 397 of the 5,418 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 DEUTSCHE DWS VARIABLE SERIES I support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 59 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 5 of them (8.5%). Across every category it voted for 41.9% 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 DEUTSCHE DWS VARIABLE SERIES I (filer no. 764797), 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.