Company: PDSRX
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001756404-25-000011
Chunk: 99

Company: Principal Real Asset Fund
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 99
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ETF"s), mutual funds or other comingled proprietary vehicles, PGI will vote in the same proportion as all other voting shareholders of the underlying fund/vehicle, which is referred to as echo voting, and the exception process is not applicable If echo voting is not available or operationally feasible, PGI may abstain from voting. In the event that the Proxy Advisor Firm itself has a conflict and thus is unable to provide a recommendation, the investment team may vote in accordance with the recommendation of another independent service provider, if available. If a recommendation from an independent service provider other than the Proxy Advisor Firm is not available, the investment team will follow the Exception Process. Principal Asset Management Compliance will review the form and if it determines that there is no potential material conflict mandating a voting recommendation from the Proxy Voting Committee, the investment team may instruct the Proxy Advisory Firm to vote the proxy issue as it determines is in the best interest of clients. If Principal Asset Management Compliance determines that there exists or may exist a material conflict, it will refer the issue to the Proxy Voting Committee for consideration as outlined above. Availability of Proxy Voting Information and Recordkeeping Disclosure Principal Asset Management publicly discloses on our website Principal Asset Management Vote Disclosure. The interactive voting dashboard, allows for dynamic disclosure of the manner in which votes were cast, including details related to (i) votes against management, (ii) abstentions, (iii) vote rationale, and (iii) voting metrics. For more information, Clients may contact Principal Asset Management for details related to how Principal Asset Management has voted with respect to securities held in the Client's account. On request, Principal Asset Management will provide clients with a summary of Principal Asset Management's proxy voting guidelines, process, and policies and will inform the clients how they can obtain a copy of the complete Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures upon request. Principal Asset Management will also include such information described in the preceding two sentences in Part 2A of its Form ADV. Recordkeeping Principal Asset Management will keep records of the following items: (i) the Guidelines; (ii) the Proxy Voting Policies and Procedures; (iii) proxy statements received regarding client securities (unless such statements are available on the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system); (iv) records of votes they cast on behalf of clients, which may be maintained by a Proxy Advisory Firm if it undertakes to provide copies of those records promptly upon request; (v) records of written client requests for proxy voting information and responses from Principal Asset Management