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For certain routine matters to be voted upon at shareholder meetings, if you don't vote by proxy or at the meeting in person, brokers may vote on your behalf at their discretion. These votes may also be called uninstructed or discretionary broker votes.

When you sign this proxy form, you authorize the proxyholder to act and vote your shares on your behalf at the meeting and any adjournment, and to carry out your voting instructions. If you are an individual shareholder, you or your authorized attorney must sign the proxy form.

A shareholder or the shareholder's agent or attorney-in-fact may appoint a proxy to vote or otherwise act for the shareholder by signing an appointment form or by an electronic transmission.

As part of its fiduciary duty to shareholders, a fund's board of directors, acting on behalf of the fund, is responsible for the voting of proxies relating to the fund's portfolio securities.

That's because votes aren't typically awarded to small investors in mutual funds or exchange-traded funds. Instead, the asset-management company that runs the fund votes, by proxy, on behalf of the investors.

Plan sponsors hold all vote entitlements. Participants hold all vote entitlements. Participants vote their shares. Remaining unvoted shares can be voted by the sponsor proportionate to the voted shares.

Prior to a company's annual meeting, eligible shareholders may receive voting and proxy information in advance of their shareholder vote. Rather than physically attending the shareholder meeting, investors may elect someone else—such as a member of the company's management team—to vote in their place.

Proxy voting is a form of voting whereby a member of a decision-making body may delegate their voting power to a representative, to enable a vote in absence. The representative may be another member of the same body, or external.