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(Proxy) voting and shareholder resolutions

LEA 12. Typical approach to (proxy) voting decisions

12.1. Indicate how you typically make your (proxy) voting decisions.

Approach

Based on

12.2. Provide an overview of how you ensure that your agreed-upon voting policy is adhered to, giving details of your approach when exceptions to the policy are made.

PGGM votes all meetings in house on our behalf. All meetings are actively monitored on a continuous basis and a large number is voted manually (for companies that are in our engagement programme or that have one, or more, shareholder proposals on the meeting agenda). On a quarterly basis a subset of meetings is selected by our internal auditor and monitored on compliance with our global voting guidelines. Proposals where we vote against management are motivated through a publicly accessible website: https://vds.issgovernance.com/vds/#/MjUzMQ==/

12.3. Additional information.[Optional]

PGGM reports to us each quarter regarding voting.

 

 

 


LEA 13. Percentage of voting recommendations reviewed (Not Applicable)


LEA 14. Securities lending programme (Private)


LEA 15. Informing companies of the rationale of abstaining/voting against management

15.1. Indicate the proportion of votes participated in within the reporting year in which where you or the service providers acting on your behalf raised concerns with companies ahead of voting.

15.2. Indicate the reasons for raising your concerns with these companies ahead of voting.

15.3. Additional information. [Optional]

We explain our voting per company via a special website, 'Remote voting', with search functionality https://vds.issgovernance.com/vds/#/MjUzMQ==/


LEA 16. Informing companies of the rationale of abstaining/voting against management

16.1. Indicate the proportion of votes where you, and/or the service provider(s) acting on your behalf, communicated the rationale to companies for abstaining or voting against management recommendations. Indicate this as a percentage out of all eligible votes.

16.3. In cases where your organisation does communicate the rationale for abstaining or voting against management recommendations, indicate whether this rationale is made public.

16.4. Additional information. [Optional]

We explain our voting per meeting via a special website, 'Remote voting', with search functionality. http://vds.issproxy.com/SearchPage.php?CustomerID=2531 https://vds.issgovernance.com/vds/#/


LEA 17. Percentage of (proxy) votes cast

17.1. For listed equities in which you or your service provider have the mandate to issue (proxy) voting instructions, indicate the percentage of votes cast during the reporting year.

Votes cast (to the nearest 1%)

98 %

Specify the basis on which this percentage is calculated

17.2. Explain your reason(s) for not voting on certain holdings

17.3. Additional information. [Optional]

 It is PFZW's objective to vote in a well-informed manner on all shareholders proposals. Our policy states that votes our are submitted in accordance with the PGGM Global Voting Guidelines. CG code, ICGN CG principles, OECD CG guidelines and Eumedion best practices, and complement with principles from the PFZW remuneration policy, among other things. our key performance indicator is to vote on 98% of the total number of company meetings at which we could have voted.


LEA 18. Proportion of ballot items that were for/against/abstentions

18.1. Indicate whether you track the voting instructions that you or your service provider on your behalf have issued.

18.2. Of the voting instructions that you and/or third parties on your behalf have issued, indicate the proportion of ballot items that were:

Voting instructions
Breakdown as percentage of votes cast
For (supporting) management recommendations
66 %
Against (opposing) management recommendations
30 %
Abstentions
4 %
100%

18.3. In cases where your organisation voted against management recommendations, indicate the percentage of companies which you have engaged.

2

18.4. Additional information. [Optional]


LEA 19. Proportion of ballot items that were for/against/abstentions

19.1. Indicate whether your organisation has a formal escalation strategy following unsuccessful voting.

19.3. Additional information. [Optional]


LEA 20. Shareholder resolutions (Private)


LEA 21. Examples of (proxy) voting activities (Private)


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