Company: AIZ
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001267238-25-000011
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Company: ASSURANT, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: PRE 14A
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<div align='center'>Please vote yes:

Give Shareholders the Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting</div>

#### Board of Directors’ Response
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE AGAINST THE PROPOSAL BECAUSE IT HAS PROPOSED PROVIDING STOCKHOLDERS WITH THE ABILITY TO CALL SPECIAL MEETINGS AT 25% OWNERSHIP THRESHOLD INSTEAD:

After a review of evolving corporate governance practices, and consistent with its strong commitment to the careful consideration of investor views, the Board recognizes that providing stockholders the ability to call special meetings is viewed by some stockholders as an important stockholder right. However, the Board believes that the 10% ownership threshold for calling a special meeting in the stockholder proposal is not in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders. Instead, the Board recommends in proposal four that stockholders approve an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to enable the adoption of a stockholder special meeting right with a 25% ownership threshold, which the Board believes strikes an appropriate balance between providing a meaningful number of stockholders with the ability to use the right to raise issues in between annual meetings and the necessary distraction of time and resources needed for management to devote to requests from stockholders to call special meetings. For a detailed discussion of this management proposal, see proposal four of this proxy statement.

Special meetings subject the Company to considerable expense and pulls the attention of management and the Board away from business initiatives and objectives. The Company believes that a stockholder special

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meeting right with only a 10% threshold would increase the risk that a relatively small group of stockholders with narrow interests that do not reflect the views of most other stockholders could call special meetings to advance agendas that are not aligned with the long-term interests of the Company. Since the Company’s three largest beneficial owners each own more than, or close to, 10% of the Company’s outstanding common stock, the Company believes that implementing a 25% ownership threshold would ensure that a decision to request a special meeting of stockholders reflects a broader consensus of stockholders rather than allowing a single stockholder to request a special meeting. A 25% ownership threshold and other reasonable processes and procedures, consistent with proposal four, would help to ensure that a special meeting will be called only