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Forethought Variable Insurance Trust proxy voting record, 2024-2025

Forethought Variable Insurance Trust reported 23,758 proxy votes on Form N-PX for the 2025 season. On the 19,021 ballot items the board itself put forward — directors, pay, the auditor, capital — it voted FOR 96.5% of the time. On the 614 environmental and social proposals put on the ballot by shareholders, it voted FOR 4.7% of the time.

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On the board’s own proposals

96.5% FOR of 19,021 fund votes on board proposals in 2024-2025: directors, pay, auditor, capital.

FOR 18,364 AGAINST 513 Abstained or withheld 144

How we count these

On proposals shareholders put on the ballot

4.7% FOR of 614 fund votes on environmental and social proposals shareholders put on the ballot. The board opposed 613.

FOR 29 AGAINST 585 Abstained 8

See the 29 it backed →

How we count these

By proposal type

A single “voted with management” figure makes every manager look the same: director elections are most of the volume and nearly everyone votes FOR them. The record is therefore reported per category, using the category the filer itself put on each item in its N-PX.

Forethought Variable Insurance Trust, 2024-2025. “Decided” is FOR + AGAINST, the denominator of the two percentage columns; abstentions and withheld votes are shown separately and are never inside a percentage. Counted in ballot items — one fund’s vote on one proposal at one meeting — never in shares.
Proposal typePut on the ballot by ItemsDecided Voted FORVoted AGAINST Abstained / withheld
Director Elections Board (4 inferred) 13,411 13,224 97.9% 2.1% 138
Director Elections Shareholders (23 inferred) 29 23 4.3% 95.7% 2
Corporate Governance Board (2 inferred) 1,680 1,632 95.9% 4.1% 42
Corporate Governance Shareholders (14 inferred) 286 282 13.1% 86.9% 1
Audit-related Board (1 inferred) 1,728 1,726 99.0% 1.0% 1
Audit-related Shareholders (5 inferred) 10 10 50.0% 50.0% 0
Say-on-Pay Board 1,547 1,493 96.2% 3.8% 0
Say-on-Pay Shareholders (4 inferred) 4 4 100.0% 0.0% 0
Capital Structure Board 1,432 1,419 93.4% 6.6% 4
Capital Structure Shareholders (13 inferred) 49 49 26.5% 73.5% 0
Compensation Board 1,236 1,234 93.7% 6.3% 1
Compensation Shareholders (8 inferred) 94 90 7.8% 92.2% 1
Other Social Issues Board 73 73 100.0% 0.0% 0
Other Social Issues Shareholders 295 291 4.5% 95.5% 4
Human Rights or Human Capital/workforce Board 28 28 85.7% 14.3% 0
Human Rights or Human Capital/workforce Shareholders (2 inferred) 263 263 3.0% 97.0% 0
Environment or Climate Board 20 20 100.0% 0.0% 0
Environment or Climate Shareholders 242 242 2.9% 97.1% 0
Shareholder Rights and Defenses Board 160 156 98.1% 1.9% 2
Shareholder Rights and Defenses Shareholders 99 98 33.7% 66.3% 1
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Board 15 15 100.0% 0.0% 0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Shareholders 197 193 1.6% 98.4% 4
Extraordinary Transactions Board 174 174 86.8% 13.2% 0

An item the filer put in two categories is counted in both rows, so the rows add up to more than the total. Who put an item on the ballot is decided item by item: the filer’s own answer on Form N-PX (Item 1(h)), or, where the filing does not give one, the proposal’s own wording (76 items, shown as inferred). The two figures above use only part of these rows: the board figure, board proposals on directors, pay, the auditor, capital, transactions and fund matters; the shareholder figure, environmental, social, workforce and diversity shareholder proposals at US-listed companies. How we count these

Every proposal where Forethought Variable Insurance Trust broke with the board (650 distinct proposals) →

What is being counted

The unit is a fund-level observation: one fund’s vote on one proposal at one meeting. It is not a share, not a filing line and not a proposal.
Forethought Variable Insurance Trust filed 23,758 vote records for 2024-2025; after removing votes filed twice in different N-PX filings, that is 22,075 ballot items (fund-level observations) across 1,232 issuer names and 7 funds. They cover 20,029 distinct proposals: one proposal voted by twenty of its funds is twenty ballot items here and one proposal. Proposals are counted per issuer name and meeting, and wordings of the same director nominee are counted once; two different wordings of any other proposal count twice, so this is an upper bound. A fund that reported several directions for the same item is a split vote, counted on its own (see the table below) and not collapsed into the larger direction. “Issuer names” is literal: filers spell the same company several ways and those are counted separately here, so this runs higher than the number of distinct companies.
Share counts are not used anywhere on this page.
Share figures in N-PX carry their own long list of corrections in this dataset, and a share-weighted rate would inherit every one of them. Every percentage here is a count of items.
Abstentions are reported, never hidden inside a percentage.
On the board’s own proposals an abstention or a withheld vote is not support, so it is in the denominator of the FOR figure and not in its numerator. On shareholder proposals an abstention is neither support nor opposition, so it is excluded from the denominator and shown on its own.
127 items are outside both headline figures.
Besides the table rows neither figure uses:
ExcludedItemsWhy
Not voted17 Reported as not voted, take no action or do not vote. No position was expressed, so there is nothing to count.
Other ballot type54 Frequency ballots (one / two / three years) and anything else that is not a FOR, AGAINST, abstention or withhold.
Direction indeterminate0 The fund reported several directions for one ballot item with no shares attached to any of them, so which way it voted cannot be established.
Split vote56 The fund voted its shares in more than one direction on the item (for example some FOR and some AGAINST), the smaller part at least 5% of its shares. It is not collapsed into the larger part.

About this page

Every figure is derived from Form N-PX, the filing 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). Figures are rebuilt weekly; this page was built on October 13, 2026. The interactive database shows the same votes company by company, including every individual fund.

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