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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 912577

FEDERATED HERMES INSURANCE SERIES

fund voting report, part of Federated Hermes

Vote records reported
5,097year to 30 June 2026
Against management
6.5%331 of 5,075 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
94.3%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
37.7%for, of for + against + abstain
91.3% for6.0% against2.7% other6.5% against management5,097 votes

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

For the year to 30 June 2026, FEDERATED HERMES INSURANCE SERIES reported 5,097 vote records on Form N-PX. 331 of the 5,075 votes that were marked for or against management went against management: 6.5%, close to the median fund registrant (6.2%).

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 8.0%. 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 94.3% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 37.7% 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 (38.8% of 85), CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (23.6% of 208) and OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES (15.6% of 45).

It reported 806,550 shares out on loan at record dates, 2.66% 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 share6.5%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate94.3%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate37.7%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held2.66%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 ELECTIONS3,4983,320935.0%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES427364226.3%
AUDIT-RELATED43343200.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES88572938.8%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS282623.6%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE1231121113.8%
COMPENSATION1641382613.0%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE2161951523.6%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE370370.0%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE261253.8%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION112918.2%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES4583615.6%
OTHER101not reported

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 20245,3557.8%91.0%28.6%
year to 30 June 20254,9095.5%96.2%25.7%
year to 30 June 20265,0976.5%94.3%37.7%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, FEDERATED HERMES INSURANCE SERIES voted against management on 19 of the 362 it marked either way (5.2%) in the year to 30 June 2026.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 208 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, FEDERATED HERMES INSURANCE SERIES voted for 78 (37.5%). 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
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 a report on AI data usage oversight
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding equal shareholder voting
JPMorgan Chase & Co.19 May 2026Independent board chairman
Johnson & Johnson23 Apr 2026Independent Board Chair
The Home Depot, Inc.21 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Independent Board Chair
CHEVRON CORPORATION27 May 2026Adopt an Independent Chair
Bank of America Corporation4 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting independent board chair
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.2 May 2026Shareholder proposal requesting that the Company issue a report disclosing the Board's oversight framework...
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated1 Jun 2026If properly presented at the 2026 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, the shareholder proposal requesting the...
PEPSICO, INC.6 May 2026Shareholder Proposal - Independent Board Chair.
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 to Adopt Policy for an Independent Chair.
Verizon Communications Inc.21 May 2026Independent board chair
QUALCOMM Incorporated17 Mar 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Meeting."
Pfizer Inc.23 Apr 2026Adopt an Independent Chair Policy
Wells Fargo & Company28 Apr 2026Require Independent Board Chair
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company5 May 2026Require Independent Board Chair
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
Lowe's Companies, Inc.29 May 2026Shareholder Proposal requesting an independent board chairman.
Intel Corporation13 May 2026Stockholder proposal requesting an enduring policy separating the Chair and CEO roles.
Comcast Corporation10 Jun 2026Adopt policy to have an independent chair
Gilead Sciences, Inc.30 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal requesting an independent Board Chair policy
S&P Global Inc.20 May 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal to reduce the stock ownership threshold for calling a special shareholder...
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
Booking Holdings Inc.2 Jun 2026Non-binding stockholder vote on a proposal to avoid brand damage due to corporate political spending.
EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION27 May 2026Require Independent Board Chair
Colgate-Palmolive Company8 May 2026Stockholder proposal entitled "Independent Board Chairman."
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 2026Shareholder proposal: OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES
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.
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.

Shares on loan

FEDERATED HERMES INSURANCE SERIES reported 806,550 shares on loan at record dates against 29.5 million shares voted: 2.66% 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

3 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
Federated Hermes Managed Volatility Fund II3,7836.4%94.9%38.6%
Federated Hermes Kaufmann Fund II1,3027.0%94.2%34.0%
Federated Hermes High Income Bond Fund II120.0%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 FEDERATED HERMES INSURANCE SERIES vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 FEDERATED HERMES INSURANCE SERIES reported 386 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 364 were for (94.3%), 22 against and 0 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 19 of the 362 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

How often does FEDERATED HERMES INSURANCE SERIES vote against management?

6.5% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 331 of the 5,075 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 FEDERATED HERMES INSURANCE SERIES support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 37 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 0 of them (0.0%). Across every category it voted for 37.7% 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 FEDERATED HERMES INSURANCE SERIES (filer no. 912577), 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.