STEPSTONE GROUP INC. 2024-2025 Proxy Voting Records

Description as filed by funds: To elect the five director nominees named in the proxy statement, each to serve for a one-year term and until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, removal, retirement or disqualification: Anne L. Raymond

STEPSTONE GROUP INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Anne L. Raymond”): 286,363,838 for, 6,012,308 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed September 13, 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: “Proposal 1 — Election of Directors The Company's stockholders elected each of the nominees for director named in the Proxy Statement, each to serve for a one-year term to expire at the Company's 2025 annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified, …”
Support: 98% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 84 asset managers below reported 35,684,522 for, 3,071,826 withheld.

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Description as filed by funds: To elect the five director nominees named in the proxy statement, each to serve for a one-year term and until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, removal, retirement or disqualification: David F. Hoffmeister

STEPSTONE GROUP INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: David F. Hoffmeister”): 285,034,076 for, 7,342,070 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed September 13, 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: “Proposal 1 — Election of Directors The Company's stockholders elected each of the nominees for director named in the Proxy Statement, each to serve for a one-year term to expire at the Company's 2025 annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified, …”
Support: 97% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 84 asset managers below reported 34,995,228 for, 3,761,120 withheld.

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Description as filed by funds: To elect the five director nominees named in the proxy statement, each to serve for a one-year term and until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, removal, retirement or disqualification: Monte M. Brem

STEPSTONE GROUP INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Monte M. Brem”): 257,079,747 for, 35,296,399 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed September 13, 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: “Proposal 1 — Election of Directors The Company's stockholders elected each of the nominees for director named in the Proxy Statement, each to serve for a one-year term to expire at the Company's 2025 annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified, …”
Support: 88% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 84 asset managers below reported 14,242,176 for, 24,514,172 withheld.

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Description as filed by funds: To elect the five director nominees named in the proxy statement, each to serve for a one-year term and until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, removal, retirement or disqualification: Scott W. Hart

STEPSTONE GROUP INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Scott W. Hart”): 271,828,151 for, 20,547,995 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed September 13, 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: “Proposal 1 — Election of Directors The Company's stockholders elected each of the nominees for director named in the Proxy Statement, each to serve for a one-year term to expire at the Company's 2025 annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified, …”
Support: 93% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 84 asset managers below reported 25,838,546 for, 12,917,802 withheld.

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Description as filed by funds: To elect the five director nominees named in the proxy statement, each to serve for a one-year term and until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, removal, retirement or disqualification: Valerie G. Brown

STEPSTONE GROUP INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Valerie G. Brown”): 286,363,703 for, 6,012,443 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed September 13, 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: “Proposal 1 — Election of Directors The Company's stockholders elected each of the nominees for director named in the Proxy Statement, each to serve for a one-year term to expire at the Company's 2025 annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor has been duly elected and qualified, …”
Support: 98% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 84 asset managers below reported 35,684,522 for, 3,071,826 withheld.

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Description as filed by funds: TO APPROVE, FOR PURPOSES OF COMPLYING WITH NASDAQ LISTING RULE 5635, THE ISSUANCE OF SHARES OF THE COMPANY'S CLASS A COMMON STOCK PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THE OPTION AGREEMENT, DATED NOVEMBER 2, 2022, BETWEEN THE COMPANY AND THE OTHER PARTIES THERETO.

The 81 asset managers below reported 21,514,499 for, 17,127,775 against. 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: To approve, on a non-binding and advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers ("Say-on-Pay").

STEPSTONE GROUP INC.’s own tally for this item (“3. Say-on-Pay The Company's stockholders, on a non-binding and advisory basis, voted to approve the compensation of the Company's named executive officers”): 289,861,949 for, 2,453,032 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed September 13, 2024 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “The Say-on-Pay proposal was approved by the votes shown below.”
Support: 99.1% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

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 83 managers: 36,926,444 for, 1,807,344 against, 21,200 abstained. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Institutional-manager reports, all 168 managers: 36,081,557 for, 2,290,411 against. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Description as filed by funds: TO RATIFY THE APPOINTMENT OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP AS THE COMPANY'S INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING MARCH 31, 2025.

STEPSTONE GROUP INC.’s own tally for this item (“2. Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm”): 292,390,781 for, 3,139,637 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed September 13, 2024 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “Proposal 2 — Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm The Company's stockholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025.”
Support: 99% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 84 asset managers below reported 37,697,888 for, 1,037,260 against, 21,200 abstained.

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