Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001140361-25-038514
Chunk: 53

Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-10-17
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 53
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 on your proxy card, access your account and submit a proxy for your shares. You must specify how you want your shares voted or your Internet proxy cannot be completed. Your shares will be voted according to your instructions. |

| • | By Phone. Call (800) 690-6903 from the United States and Canada, and follow the instructions on your enclosed proxy card. You must specify how you want your shares voted and confirm your voting instructions at the end of the call or your telephone vote cannot be completed. Your shares will be voted according to your instructions. |

| • | By Mail. You can submit your proxy by completing, signing, dating and returning the proxy card in the enclosed postage-paid envelope. |

The control number provided on your proxy card is designed to verify your identity when submitting a proxy by telephone or Internet. The Internet and telephone voting facilities for the submission of proxies for stockholders of record will close at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on [], 2025. If you are a beneficial owner, please refer to the instructions provided by your bank, brokerage firm or other nominee to see which of the above choices are available to you. Please note that if you are a beneficial owner and wish to vote electronically at the special meeting, you must provide a legal proxy from your bank, brokerage firm or other nominee at the special meeting.

| Q. | What effect do abstentions and “broker non-votes” have on the proposals? |

| A. | Abstentions will not be considered votes cast on any proposal brought before the special meeting. Because the affirmative vote of the holders of shares of Tiptree common stock entitled to cast a majority of all of the votes entitled to be cast on the Merger Proposal is required to approve the Merger Proposal, the failure of any stockholder of record to submit a signed proxy card, grant a proxy electronically over the Internet or by telephone or to vote electronically by ballot at the special meeting will have the same effect as a vote “AGAINST” the Merger Proposal, and any abstention with respect to the Merger Proposal will have the same effect as a vote “AGAINST” the Merger Proposal. Only Tiptree stockholders of record at the close of business on [], 2025, the record date for the special meeting, are entitled to notice of, and entitled to cast votes at, the special meeting and any postponements or adjournments thereof. You will be entitled to cast one vote at the special meeting for each share of