Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form Type: DEFM14A
Source: 0001140361-25-039949
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Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-31
Form: DEFM14A
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 of business on October 30, 2025, the record date for the special meeting, your shares of Tiptree common stock were held not in your name, but rather in an account at a brokerage firm, bank, dealer, or other similar organization, then your shares of Tiptree common stock are held in “street name” and you are the beneficial owner of the shares of Tiptree common stock. If you are a beneficial owner of shares of Tiptree common stock registered in the name of your broker, bank, or other agent, you should have received a voting instruction form with these proxy materials from that organization rather than from us. Please return the voting instruction form to your broker, bank, or other nominee to ensure that your vote is counted. Alternatively, you may submit your voting instructions over the Internet, as instructed by your broker or bank. To vote electronically at the special meeting, you must obtain a valid proxy from your broker, bank, or other agent. Follow the instructions from your broker or bank included with these proxy materials or contact your broker or bank to request such a proxy form.

| Q. | If my shares of Tiptree common stock are held in “street name” by my bank, brokerage firm or other nominee, will my bank, brokerage firm or other nominee vote my shares of Tiptree common stock for me? |

| A. | Your bank, brokerage firm or other nominee will only be permitted to vote your shares of Tiptree common stock if you instruct your bank, brokerage firm or other nominee how to vote. You should follow the procedures |

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provided by your bank, brokerage firm or other nominee regarding the voting of your shares of Tiptree common stock. Banks, brokerage firms or other nominees who hold shares in “street name” for customers have the authority to vote on “routine” proposals when they have not received instructions from beneficial owners. However, banks, brokerage firms and other nominees are precluded from exercising their voting discretion with respect to “non-routine” matters, such as the proposals to be considered at the special meeting, and, as a result, absent specific instructions from the beneficial owner of such shares of Tiptree common stock, banks, brokerage firms or other nominees are not empowered to vote those shares of Tiptree common stock on “non-routine” matters. If you do not instruct your bank, brokerage firm or other nominee to vote your shares of Tiptree common stock, your shares of Tiptree