Proxy Voting

Professionals’ Financial – Mutual Funds Inc. has adopted a proxy voting policy (hereinafter the “Policy”) with respect to securities portfolios for funds managed by FDP and for proxies received from Private Investment clients. The Policy was developed in collaboration with the Board of Directors of Professionals’ Financial – Mutual Funds Inc. and its Governance Committee. The Policy reflects the values of FDP, which believes that every company has a duty to act responsibly, in terms of respect for human rights, labour rights and environmental protection. To complete its internal process, FDP has retained the services of Institutional Shareholder Services (hereafter “ISS”), a subsidiary of MSCI Inc. and an independent company with a worldwide reputation in the fields of proxy voting and corporate governance. Professionals’ Financial – Mutual Funds Inc. has established its proxy voting guidelines in compliance with UN guidelines and in collaboration with ISS. They are available on our website.

The Compliance Department has set up a voting rights monitoring program. The purpose of this monitoring is to confirm that voting rights have been executed in full and in accordance with our current policy by our supplier. This monitoring is carried out on a quarterly basis, and problem cases, if any, are reported to the Investment Department and discussed with our supplier.  This monitoring is carried out on a quarterly basis, and any problem cases are reported to the Investment Department and discussed with our supplier. Monitoring of voting rights outsourced to ISS is carried out by the Compliance Department, in order to validate the quality of the voting choices made by ISS and also to ensure that they have properly applied our policy.