Company: CGABL
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001527166-25-000032
Chunk: 27

Company: Carlyle Group Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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 a governance policy that addresses significant issues of corporate governance and sets forth procedures by which our Board carries out its responsibilities. The governance policy is available on our website at ir.carlyle.com . Code of Ethics for Financial Professionals We have a Code of Conduct and a Code of Ethics for Financial Professionals, which apply to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer and principal accounting officer. Each of these codes is available on our website at ir.carlyle.com . We intend to disclose any legally required amendment to or waiver of the Code of Ethics for Financial Professionals and any waiver of our Code of Conduct on behalf of an executive officer or director either on our website or in a Current Report on Form 8-K filing with the SEC.

| 24 | CARLYLE | Proxy Statement2025 |

| Corporate Governance |

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT We engage with our fund investors, shareholders, portfolio companies, colleagues, and communities to help us set priorities, assess our progress, and enhance our corporate governance practices. We facilitate these conversations through consistent individual and small group meetings, industry conferences, Carlyle conferences, perception surveys, and engagements with various consultants and rating agencies. We are committed to ongoing communications with all our stakeholders. In 2024, we continued to enhance our approach to stakeholder interactions and prioritized in-person engagement. Highlights from 2024 include: • Hosted detailed quarterly earnings calls to discuss our results with up to 18 covering analysts and their teams as well as hundreds of external stakeholders, including our shareholders, for each call; • Organized periodic and ongoing update calls, in-person meetings at investor offices, and virtual meetings with the vast majority of our external shareholders and a large number of domestic and international potential new shareholders; • Attended various in-person investor conferences to present or discuss Carlyle’s opportunity set and growth objectives as well as our financial results, hosting several hundred current or potential new investors in individual or group meetings; • Conducted periodic update calls with our fund investors to provide transparency regarding their investment as well as our global insights and perspectives during a time of significant uncertainty; and • Held various Global Investor Conferences that were attended by our fund investors and employees. Shareholder Engagement and Outreach We conduct shareholder outreach throughout the year to engage with our shareholders on issues that are important to them. The leadership team reports back to our Board of Directors on this engagement as well as specific issues to be addressed. For example, during our 2024 engagement, certain shareholders mentioned the minority support received for the shareholder proposal to lower our shareholder right to call