Company: AFGC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-012231
Chunk: 79

Company: AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-04
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 79
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 held. If your common shares are registered directly in your name with Broadridge Corporate Issuer Solutions, our transfer agent, you are a “registered shareholder.” If your common shares are held in the name of a broker, bank or other nominee as a custodian, you are a “street name shareholder.”

| 722025 Proxy Statement | American Financial Group |

TABLE OF CONTENTS Information about the Annual Meeting and Voting

What if my common shares are held in “street name” through a broker, bank or other nominee? If your common shares are held in “street name” through a broker, bank or other nominee, you are considered the beneficial owner of those common shares, but not the record holder. As a beneficial owner, in order to ensure your shares are voted in the way you would like, you must provide voting instructions to your broker by the deadline provided in the proxy materials you receive from your broker. Under the rules of the NYSE, unless you provide specific voting instructions, your broker is not permitted to vote your shares on your behalf, except with respect to routine proposals. The ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm (Proposal 2) constitutes a routine proposal. For your vote on any other matter to be counted, you will need to provide voting instructions to your broker before the date of the 2025 annual meeting using the instructions provided by your broker. What are the Board’s recommendations on how I should vote my common shares? The Board recommends that you vote your common shares as follows:

| • | “FOR” the election of the 12 nominees proposed for the Board of Directors; |

| • | “FOR” the ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm; |

| • | “FOR” the approval, on an advisory basis, of compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in this proxy statement; and |

| • | “FOR” the approval of the Amendment to the Amended and Restated 2015 Stock Incentive Plan solely to add non-employee Directors as participants. |

Do I have an opportunity to cumulate my votes for director nominees? Cumulative voting allows a shareholder to multiply the number of shares owned on the record date by the number of directors to be elected and to cast the total for one nominee or distribute the votes among the nominees as the shareholder desires. Shareholders of the Company have cumulative voting rights in the election of directors if certain conditions are met. In order for cumulative voting to apply, notice of cumulative voting must be given in