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William Blair Emerging Markets Small Cap Growth Fund (BESIX) proxy voting record 2026

Three of its ballots from this season. Vote first, then see what it did with the shares your savings paid for.

The question on the ballot

As filed

William Blair Funds files this fund's proxy votes with the SEC once a year. This is what it did with the shares your retirement savings paid for.

SourceProxy-voting record filed by William Blair Funds on 2026-08-17 · open the filing · vote table (ProxyVotingTable.xml, 18 MB)

TickersBESIX (Class I), WESNX (Class N), WESJX (Class R6) · share classes of one fund, with one proxy-voting record · as listed in its latest SEC filing of proxy votes

How it voted, by issue

Fund companies sometimes file the same proposal under different subjects. So that funds can be compared, each proposal is counted under the subject most of the filings we read gave it, the same for every fund on this site. On management's own executive pay resolutions, this fund voted in favour 47.1% of the time across 17 votes.

IssueProposals facedBackedShare backed
Executive pay100%
Corporate governance13323.1%

Ballots it voted

BNK Financial Group, Inc. · 26 March 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay

Approve Total Remuneration of Inside Directors and Outside Directors (Shareholder Proposal)

AGAINST  William Blair Emerging Markets Small Cap Growth Fund voted with 602,460 shares

“Approve Total Remuneration of Inside Directors and Outside Directors (Shareholder Proposal)”

SourceWilliam Blair Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-17 · accession 0001193125-26-353690 · series S000034349 · open the filing

Enea Sa · 28 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder

Approve Terms of Remuneration of Supervisory Board Members

AGAINST  William Blair Emerging Markets Small Cap Growth Fund voted with 372,544 shares

“Approve Terms of Remuneration of Supervisory Board Members”

SourceWilliam Blair Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-17 · accession 0001193125-26-353690 · series S000034349 · open the filing

Benefit Systems SA · 21 July 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder

Amend Statute Re: Supervisory Board

FOR  William Blair Emerging Markets Small Cap Growth Fund voted with 2,350 shares

“Amend Statute Re: Supervisory Board”

SourceWilliam Blair Funds, Form N-PX filed 2026-08-17 · accession 0001193125-26-353690 · series S000034349 · open the filing

Other funds William Blair Funds votes

The same filer reports these alongside this one, in the same annual filing.

William Blair Emerging Markets ex China Growth Fund61.5% for exec payWilliam Blair Emerging Markets Growth Fund64.3% for exec payWilliam Blair Emerging Markets Leaders Fund42.9% for exec payWilliam Blair Global Leaders Fund91.2% for exec payWilliam Blair Growth Fund84.1% for exec payWilliam Blair Institutional International Growth Fund88.5% for exec payWilliam Blair International Growth Fund88.5% for exec payWilliam Blair International Leaders Fund88.9% for exec payWilliam Blair International Small Cap Growth Fund73.4% for exec payWilliam Blair Large Cap Growth Fund81.5% for exec pay

No 401(k) plan we index offers this fund. Its record is here because the fund files it with the SEC, as every fund must: whoever holds it, in an IRA, a brokerage account or a plan we have not indexed, the fund votes those shares as shown on this page.

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