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Compiled from SEC Form N-PX filings and WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC.’s Form 8-K, filed May 21, 2024 (Item 5.07 on EDGAR). Page generated October 14, 2026.
Meeting of May 21, 2024: 4 items on WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC.’s Form 8-K, filed May 21, 2024: 4 without a stated outcome.
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Material dissent: a director nominee under 80% of the votes cast, say-on-pay under 70%, any other item the board put forward under 80%, or a shareholder proposal with more than 50%, on the company’s own Form 8-K tally. How this is decided
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These tallies are WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC.’s own, as disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 8-K, filed May 21, 2024 (Item 5.07, “Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders”). They cover every share voted at the meeting, not just the funds that file Form N-PX.
| Ballot item | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Broker non-votes | Support (of votes cast) | Reported outcome | Voting standard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elect Director: Douglas S. Gordon | 12,629,507 | -- | -- | 1,573,647 | -- | 89% | Not verified | — |
| Elect Director: Patrick S. Lawton | 12,441,383 | -- | -- | 1,761,771 | -- | 88% | Not verified | — |
| Proposal 2: "Ratification of the selection of FORVIS, LLP as the Company's auditors for the year ending December 31, 2024." The following votes were cast: | 16,534,750 | 225,683 | 35,187 | -- | -- | 99% | Not verified | — |
| Proposal 3: "An advisory, non-binding resolution to approve the executive compensation." The following votes were cast: | 12,988,051 | 1,082,811 | 132,312 | -- | -- | 92% | Not verified | — |
Source: WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC., Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on May 21, 2024 — read the filing on EDGAR.
Each item below shows how the 132 asset managers that disclosed a WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC. vote in their SEC Form N-PX filings actually voted. Share totals are the shares those managers' funds voted, summed across every fund they report. These are reported items, not a count of the ballot: fund filings describe one ballot item in different words. Two descriptions are shown as one item only on evidence — the same text (or one cut short of the other), the same director nominee, or a match to the same row of WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC.’s own Form 8-K tally — never because they merely read alike. A description that could not be joined that way is listed on its own, so one ballot item can appear more than once.
Combines 5 wordings of this item as funds reported it.
89% Majority: yes · of votes cast
Description as filed by funds: Election of Directors: Douglas Gordon
WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Douglas S. Gordon”): 12,629,507 for, 1,573,647 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed May 21, 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: 89% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.
The 51 asset managers below reported 4,447,564 for, 438,837 withheld.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dimensional | 1,448,255 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Vanguard | 998,830 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BlackRock | 756,898 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Fidelity | 424,273 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BRIDGEWAY FUNDS INC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 317,400 | Withhold |
| American Century | 156,613 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Charles Schwab | 151,304 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Invesco | 89,575 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| TIAA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65,633 | Withhold |
| EA Series Trust | 65,164 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Equitable | 30,313 | 0 | 0 | 18,420 | Mixed |
| Federated Hermes | 39,541 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| State Street | 37,186 | 0 | 0 | 10 | For |
| QUANTITATIVE MASTER SERIES LLC | 33,221 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| ETF Series Solutions | 30,387 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| SEI | 26,375 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Lincoln Financial | 6,551 | 0 | 0 | 16,080 | Mixed |
| WisdomTree | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19,214 | Withhold |
| Goldman Sachs | 15,847 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| RBC FUNDS TRUST | 14,800 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Northern Trust | 12,963 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| First Trust | 10,380 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| John Hancock | 9,743 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Global X | 9,316 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Jackson National | 8,630 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
Showing the 25 largest of 51 asset managers. See all 51 in the interactive database.
Combines 5 wordings of this item as funds reported it.
88% Majority: yes · of votes cast
Description as filed by funds: Election of Directors: Patrick Lawton
WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Patrick S. Lawton”): 12,441,383 for, 1,761,771 withheld, per its Form 8-K filed May 21, 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: 88% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.
The 51 asset managers below reported 4,496,520 for, 375,081 withheld, 14,800 abstained.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dimensional | 1,448,255 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Vanguard | 998,830 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BlackRock | 756,898 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Fidelity | 424,273 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BRIDGEWAY FUNDS INC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 317,400 | Withhold |
| American Century | 156,613 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Charles Schwab | 151,304 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Invesco | 89,575 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| TIAA | 65,633 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| EA Series Trust | 65,164 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Equitable | 30,313 | 0 | 0 | 18,420 | Mixed |
| Federated Hermes | 39,541 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| State Street | 37,186 | 0 | 0 | 10 | For |
| QUANTITATIVE MASTER SERIES LLC | 33,221 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| ETF Series Solutions | 30,387 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| SEI | 26,375 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Lincoln Financial | 6,551 | 0 | 0 | 16,080 | Mixed |
| WisdomTree | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19,214 | Withhold |
| Goldman Sachs | 15,847 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| RBC FUNDS TRUST | 0 | 0 | 14,800 | 0 | Abstain |
| Northern Trust | 12,963 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| First Trust | 10,380 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| John Hancock | 9,743 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Global X | 9,316 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Jackson National | 8,630 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
Showing the 25 largest of 51 asset managers. See all 51 in the interactive database.
Combines 5 wordings of this item as funds reported it.
92% Majority: yes · of votes cast
Description as filed by funds: APPROVING AN ADVISORY, NON-BINDING RESOLUTION TO APPROVE THE EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION DESCRIBED IN THE PROXY STATEMENT.
WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC.’s own tally for this item (“Proposal 3: "An advisory, non-binding resolution to approve the executive compensation." The following votes were cast:”): 12,988,051 for, 1,082,811 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 21, 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: 92% 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).
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dimensional | 1,448,255 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Vanguard | 998,830 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BlackRock | 756,898 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Fidelity | 424,273 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BRIDGEWAY FUNDS INC | 317,400 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| American Century | 0 | 156,613 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Charles Schwab | 151,304 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Invesco | 89,575 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| TIAA | 65,633 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| EA Series Trust | 65,164 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| TETON WESTWOOD FUNDS | 63,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Equitable | 48,733 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Federated Hermes | 39,541 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| State Street | 37,196 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| QUANTITATIVE MASTER SERIES LLC | 33,221 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| ETF Series Solutions | 30,387 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| SEI | 26,375 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Lincoln Financial | 22,631 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| WisdomTree | 19,214 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Goldman Sachs | 15,847 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| RBC FUNDS TRUST | 14,800 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Northern Trust | 12,963 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| First Trust | 10,380 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| John Hancock | 9,743 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Global X | 9,316 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
Fund voting reports, all 52 managers: 4,794,298 for, 158,435 against. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renaissance | 1,231,610 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BlackRock | 709,917 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC | 403,103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC | 338,600 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Rhino Investment Partners, Inc | 333,990 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Baird | 204,858 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Northern Trust | 157,218 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| American Century | 0 | 156,613 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Charles Schwab | 151,304 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Dimensional | 150,586 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| PARAMETRIC PORTFOLIO ASSOCIATES LLC | 145,629 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP | 98,209 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Invesco | 95,876 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| MELLON INVESTMENTS Corp | 78,538 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Goldman Sachs | 71,274 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Nuveen | 66,292 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Fidelity | 51,658 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Two Sigma | 49,224 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Federated Hermes | 43,758 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| STRS OHIO | 42,900 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| State Street | 37,116 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| STATE OF WISCONSIN INVESTMENT BOARD | 34,500 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| SEI | 27,188 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BHZ CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LP | 23,364 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Connor, Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. | 18,884 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
Institutional-manager reports, all 97 managers: 4,774,966 for, 177,421 against. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.
92% Majority: yes · of votes cast
Description as filed by funds: Advisory Vote to Ratify Named Executive Officers' Compensation
WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC.’s own tally for this item (“Proposal 3: "An advisory, non-binding resolution to approve the executive compensation." The following votes were cast:”): 12,988,051 for, 1,082,811 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 21, 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: 92% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.
The 2 asset managers below reported 802 for.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren Street Wealth Advisors, LLC | 802 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| OARSMAN CAPITAL, INC. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- |
Combines 4 wordings of this item as funds reported it.
99% of fund votes cast · no official result
The 52 asset managers below reported 4,887,569 for, 65,164 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.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dimensional | 1,448,255 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Vanguard | 998,830 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BlackRock | 756,898 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Fidelity | 424,273 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BRIDGEWAY FUNDS INC | 317,400 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| American Century | 156,613 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Charles Schwab | 151,304 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Invesco | 89,575 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| TIAA | 65,633 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| EA Series Trust | 0 | 65,164 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| TETON WESTWOOD FUNDS | 63,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Equitable | 48,733 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Federated Hermes | 39,541 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| State Street | 37,196 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| QUANTITATIVE MASTER SERIES LLC | 33,221 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| ETF Series Solutions | 30,387 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| SEI | 26,375 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Lincoln Financial | 22,631 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| WisdomTree | 19,214 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Goldman Sachs | 15,847 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| RBC FUNDS TRUST | 14,800 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Northern Trust | 12,963 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| First Trust | 10,380 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| John Hancock | 9,743 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Global X | 9,316 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
Showing the 25 largest of 52 asset managers. See all 52 in the interactive database.
Ranked separately for each type of Form N-PX report. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two tables can list the same shares and are never added together. Each is ranked by the shares voted on the item that the most managers of that type reported, shown as a share of the 19,643,741 shares outstanding at the time of that meeting.
| # | Asset manager | % of shares outstanding |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dimensional | 7.37% |
| 2 | Vanguard | 5.08% |
| 3 | BlackRock | 3.85% |
| 4 | Fidelity | 2.16% |
| 5 | BRIDGEWAY FUNDS INC | 1.62% |
| 6 | American Century | 0.80% |
| 7 | Charles Schwab | 0.77% |
| 8 | Invesco | 0.46% |
| 9 | TIAA | 0.33% |
| 10 | EA Series Trust | 0.33% |
| # | Asset manager | % of shares outstanding |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Renaissance | 6.27% |
| 2 | BlackRock | 3.61% |
| 3 | GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC | 2.05% |
| 4 | BRIDGEWAY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC | 1.72% |
| 5 | Rhino Investment Partners, Inc | 1.70% |
| 6 | Baird | 1.04% |
| 7 | Northern Trust | 0.80% |
| 8 | American Century | 0.80% |
| 9 | Charles Schwab | 0.77% |
| 10 | Dimensional | 0.77% |
As disclosed to the SEC in Form 13F (quarter-end holdings of 30 large managers), Schedules 13D and 13G (beneficial ownership above 5%) and the company’s own proxy statement (DEF 14A). Each row names its form.
| Holder | % outstanding | Disclosure |
|---|---|---|
| s. | 11.59% | 13G |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors | 8.28% | 13F |
| BlackRock | 8.03% | 13F |
| Renaissance Technologies | 6.55% | 13F |
| Vanguard Group | 4.63% | 13F |
| State Street | 2.41% | 13F |
| Geode Capital | 2.05% | 13F |
| Northern Trust | 0.90% | 13F |
| Goldman Sachs | 0.87% | 13F |
| Morgan Stanley | 0.86% | 13F |
Percentages above are of 19,643,741 shares outstanding, as reported by WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC. on its Form 10-Q dated May 7, 2024 (see the filing on EDGAR). This is the count contemporaneous with the 2023-2024 meeting, not today’s. Each holding is as of its own filing, which may be dated before or after the meeting.
Every figure above is derived from filings made with the US Securities and Exchange Commission: Form N-PX, in which registered funds disclose how they voted every proxy and institutional managers disclose their votes on executive pay (say-on-pay, say-on-frequency and golden parachutes), and Form 8-K Item 5.07, in which the company reports its own meeting results. Shares outstanding are taken from WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC.’s 10-Q dated May 7, 2024. This page is a static snapshot rebuilt weekly on October 14, 2026; a live search always shows the current data.
At WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC.'s shareholder meeting held May 21, 2024, in the 2023-2024 proxy season, 132 asset managers reported how they voted in their SEC Form N-PX filings, covering 695 separate fund positions. Their filings are grouped here into 5 reported items; because filers word the same ballot item differently, that can be more than the number of items on the ballot. On the most widely held item on that ballot — APPROVING AN ADVISORY, NON-BINDING RESOLUTION TO APPROVE THE EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION DESCRIBED… — FOR was 92% of the votes cast (FOR divided by FOR plus AGAINST, the conventional basis for proxy support; abstentions, broker non-votes and unvoted shares are excluded because none of them took a side), which is more than half. Whether the item was approved is for the filing to say; that statement has not been read for this item. Source: WATERSTONE FINANCIAL INC.'s Form 8-K, Item 5.07, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 21, 2024.
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