Company: CNS
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001284812-25-000127
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Company: COHEN & STEERS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 6
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 common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting is necessary to constitute a quorum. Abstentions and shares represented by “broker non-votes” that are present and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting are counted for purposes of determining a quorum. A broker non-vote occurs when a nominee holding shares for a beneficial owner does not have discretionary voting power for a proposal and has not received instructions from the beneficial owner but has submitted a proxy with respect to a discretionary matter. Under current New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) rules, if you do not instruct your broker how to vote with respect to Items 1 (election of directors) or 3 (approval of the compensation of the company’s named executive officers), your broker may not vote your shares with respect to such proposals. There cannot be any broker non-votes with respect to Item 2 (ratification of the company’s independent registered public accounting firm) because brokers have discretion under the NYSE rules to vote uninstructed shares on such proposals.

With respect to Item 1 (election of directors), in an uncontested election of directors, to be elected, a director nominee must receive a majority of the votes cast by holders of the company’s common stock present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors (a “majority vote”). Abstentions and broker non-votes are not counted as votes “for” or “against” a director nominee and will have no effect on the outcome of the election. In a contested election of directors, to be elected, a director nominee must receive a plurality of the votes cast by holders of the company’s common stock present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors. Under the company’s bylaws, a “contested election” is an election in which, as of the tenth day preceding the date the company first transmits the notice of meeting for such annual meeting to its shareholders or at any time thereafter, the number of nominees for director is greater than the number to be elected.

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In order to be nominated for re-election at the annual meeting, each incumbent director has agreed to resign upon acceptance of such resignation by the Board if such director does not receive a majority of the votes cast in an uncontested election. The Board must accept or reject such resignation within 90 days following certification of the shareholder vote.

If a director’s resignation is not accepted by the Board,