AVANTAX INC. 2023-2024 Proxy Voting Records

Description as filed by funds: Proposal to adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of September 9, 2023 (as may be amended from time to time, the "merger agreement") by and among Avantax, Inc., Aretec Group, Inc. and C2023 Sub Corp.:

The 78 asset managers below reported 15,134,515 for, 30,600 abstained. The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.

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Description as filed by funds: Proposal to adjourn the special meeting from time to time to a later date or time, if necessary or appropriate, including to solicit additional proxies in favor of the proposal to adopt the merger agreement if there are insufficient votes at the time of the special meeting to adopt the merger agreement:

The 77 asset managers below reported 13,630,545 for, 1,503,680 against, 30,600 abstained. The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.

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Description as filed by funds: Proposal to approve, by a non-binding advisory vote, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to Avantax, Inc.'s named executive officers that is based on, or otherwise relates to, the merger of C2023 Sub Corp. with and into Avantax, Inc., as contemplated by the merger agreement:

AVANTAX INC.’s own tally for this item (“Non-Binding Compensation Advisory Proposal At the Special Meeting, the Company's stockholders voted upon and approved a proposal to approve, by a non-binding advisory vote, the compensation that may be paid or become pay”): 25,207,442 for, 4,186,832 against, per its Form 8-K filed November 21, 2023 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: not verified — the filing’s own statement of the outcome could not be identified for this item.
Support: 86% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

Fund share totals are not shown for this item: fund-reported shares overlap across filings (an adviser and the funds it manages can each report the same shares), and here their sum exceeds the total votes cast at the meeting.

Showing the 25 largest of 213 asset managers. See all 213 in the interactive database.

Fund voting reports and institutional-manager reports both cover this item. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two are shown separately below and never added together, and their sum is not shown (fund and manager reports combined may count the same shares twice). The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.

Fund voting reports, all 1 managers: 27,698 for.

Institutional-manager reports, all 2 managers: 196,774 for.