COLUMBIA FINANCIAL INC. 2023-2024 Proxy Voting Records

Description as filed by funds: Election of Directors (Three-Year Terms): Lucy Sorrentini

COLUMBIA FINANCIAL INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Lucy Sorrentini”): 94,017,578 for, 1,572,761 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed June 7, 2024 (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: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “The following individuals were elected as directors, each for a three-year term by the following vote:”
Support: 98% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 45 asset managers below reported 5,247,521 for, 461,728 withheld, 34,036 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Election of Directors (Three-Year Terms): Noel R. Holland

COLUMBIA FINANCIAL INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Noel R. Holland”): 93,781,089 for, 1,809,250 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed June 7, 2024 (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: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “The following individuals were elected as directors, each for a three-year term by the following vote:”
Support: 98% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 45 asset managers below reported 5,216,997 for, 492,252 withheld, 34,036 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Election of Directors (Three-Year Terms): Robert Van Dyk

COLUMBIA FINANCIAL INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Robert Van Dyk”): 92,391,638 for, 3,198,701 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed June 7, 2024 (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: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “The following individuals were elected as directors, each for a three-year term by the following vote:”
Support: 97% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 45 asset managers below reported 4,870,610 for, 816,065 withheld, 56,610 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: To approve, on an advisory (non- binding) basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers.

COLUMBIA FINANCIAL INC.’s own tally for this item (“3. An advisory vote was taken on the compensation of the Company's named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company's proxy statement, and the vote”): 93,910,390 for, 1,536,745 against, per its Form 8-K filed June 7, 2024 (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: 98% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

Also reported under other wordings, matched to the same row of COLUMBIA FINANCIAL INC.’s official tally and shown with their own fund figures; their managers are not in the figures or the table on this card: “To approve, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, the compensaiton of the Company's named executive officers.” (2 managers, 8,452 for).

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).

Fund voting reports, all 44 managers: 5,695,316 for, 47,942 against. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Institutional-manager reports, all 92 managers: 4,050,803 for, 166,457 against. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Description as filed by funds: TO RATIFY THE APPOINTMENT OF KPMG LLP AS OUR INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024.

COLUMBIA FINANCIAL INC.’s own tally for this item (“2. Appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024”): 98,166,414 for, 733,096 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed June 7, 2024 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “The appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024 was ratified by the shareholders by the following vote:”
Support: 99.2% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 45 asset managers below reported 5,743,166 for, 119 against.

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