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At Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.'s shareholder meeting held April 21, 2026, in the 2025-2026 proxy season, 66 asset managers reported how they voted in their SEC Form N-PX filings, covering 696 separate fund positions. Their filings are grouped here into 6 reported items; because filers word the same ballot item differently, that can be more than the number of items on the ballot. Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.'s own Form 8-K tally for this meeting is published below, but no row in it could be matched to the most widely held item, so this page states no certified outcome for that item. On that item — A PROPOSAL TO APPROVE ONE OR MORE ADJOURNMENTS OF THE SPECIAL MEETING, IF NECESSARY OR… — the reporting funds cast 96% of the shares they voted in favour (FOR divided by FOR plus AGAINST plus WITHHELD; abstained and unvoted shares are excluded because neither took a side). That is the aggregate of those managers' own N-PX disclosures, not the company's certified result, and the funds are a subset of all shareholders.
Download data (CSV): ballot items · votes by manager · column guide.
Compiled from SEC Form N-PX filings and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.’s Form 8-K, filed April 22, 2026 (Item 5.07 on EDGAR). Page generated November 8, 2026.
Meeting of April 21, 2026: 2 items on Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.’s Form 8-K, filed April 22, 2026: 1 approved · 1 without a stated outcome.
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Material dissent: a director nominee under 80% of the votes cast, say-on-pay under 70%, any other item the board put forward under 80%, or a shareholder proposal with more than 50%, on the company’s own Form 8-K tally. How this is decided
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These tallies are Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.’s own, as disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 8-K, filed April 22, 2026 (Item 5.07, “Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders”). They cover every share voted at the meeting, not just the funds that file Form N-PX.
| Ballot item | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Broker non-votes | Support (of votes cast) | Reported outcome | Voting standard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The voting results with respect to the Asset Sale Proposal were | 92,625,412 | 738,476 | 366,093 | -- | -- | 99.2% | Approved | a supermajority of the shares outstanding |
| The voting results with respect to the Common Stock Issuance Proposal were | 91,998,341 | 1,368,261 | 363,369 | -- | -- | 99% | Not verified | — |
Source: Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc., Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on April 22, 2026 — read the filing on EDGAR.
Each item below shows how the 66 asset managers that disclosed a Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. vote in their SEC Form N-PX filings actually voted. Share totals are the shares those managers' funds voted, summed across every fund they report. These are reported items, not a count of the ballot: fund filings describe one ballot item in different words. Two descriptions are shown as one item only on evidence — the same text (or one cut short of the other), the same director nominee, or a match to the same row of Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.’s own Form 8-K tally — never because they merely read alike. A description that could not be joined that way is listed on its own, so one ballot item can appear more than once.
Combines 3 wordings of this item as funds reported it.
99.9% of fund votes cast · no official result
Description as filed by funds: A proposal to approve the sale of our commercial real estate loan portfolio to Athene Holding Ltd. ("Athene") pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in an asset purchase and sale agreement (as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, the "Purchase Agreement"), dated January 27, 2026, by and between ARI and Athene, and the other transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement (collectively, the "Asset Sale"), as more fully described in the accompanying proxy statement (the "Asset Sale Proposal").
The 63 asset managers below reported 46,662,880 for, 5 against, 3 abstained. The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock | 16,073,885 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Vanguard | 14,414,609 | 5 | 3 | 0 | For |
| Fidelity | 2,842,996 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Charles Schwab | 2,105,899 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Global X | 2,013,741 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| State Street | 1,549,843 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| VanEck ETF Trust | 1,203,838 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Invesco | 1,169,374 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| First Trust | 918,417 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| JPMorgan | 379,761 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| TIAA | 316,424 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Equitable | 306,321 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Columbia Threadneedle | 279,659 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| PIMCO | 241,088 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| QUANTITATIVE MASTER SERIES LLC | 228,066 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Jackson National | 222,103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Principal | 206,087 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| WisdomTree | 197,644 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| New Age Alpha Funds Trust | 150,193 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| HOTCHKIS & WILEY FUNDS /DE/ | 134,600 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Bridge Builder Trust | 119,028 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Brighthouse | 116,956 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| ETF Series Solutions | 115,610 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BNY Mellon | 112,667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Lincoln Financial | 104,224 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
Showing the 25 largest of 63 asset managers. All 63 are in the interactive database (link above).
99.2% Approved · of votes cast
Description as filed by funds: Approve Sale of Company Assets
Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.’s own tally for this item (“The voting results with respect to the Asset Sale Proposal were as follows”): 92,625,412 for, 738,476 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed April 22, 2026 (Item 5.07).
Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “At the Special Meeting, the Company's stockholders approved: (i) a proposal to approve the sale of the Company's commercial real estate loan portfolio to Athene Holding Ltd.”
Support: 99.2% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.
Voting standard, as the filing states it: a supermajority of the shares outstanding (“67.5% of the issued and outstanding”).
The 2 asset managers below reported 142,009 for.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empower | 136,655 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| CLEARWATER INVESTMENT TRUST | 5,354 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
Combines 3 wordings of this item as funds reported it.
99.8% of fund votes cast · no official result
Description as filed by funds: A proposal to approve, subject to approval of the Asset Sale Proposal, the issuance of shares of our common stock, par value $0.01 per share, in lieu of cash, to ARI's manager, ACREFI Management, LLC (our "Manager"), pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in an amended and restated management agreement by and among ARI, ACREFI Operating, LLC, a subsidiary of ARI, and our Manager, to be entered into in connection with the closing of the Asset Sale.
The 63 asset managers below reported 46,611,932 for, 50,953 against, 3 abstained. The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock | 16,073,885 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Vanguard | 14,414,604 | 10 | 3 | 0 | For |
| Fidelity | 2,842,996 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Charles Schwab | 2,105,899 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Global X | 2,013,741 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| State Street | 1,549,843 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| VanEck ETF Trust | 1,203,838 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Invesco | 1,169,374 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| First Trust | 918,417 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| JPMorgan | 379,761 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| TIAA | 316,424 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Equitable | 306,321 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Columbia Threadneedle | 279,659 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| PIMCO | 241,088 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| QUANTITATIVE MASTER SERIES LLC | 228,066 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Jackson National | 222,103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Principal | 206,087 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| WisdomTree | 197,644 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| New Age Alpha Funds Trust | 150,193 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| HOTCHKIS & WILEY FUNDS /DE/ | 134,600 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Bridge Builder Trust | 119,028 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Brighthouse | 116,956 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| ETF Series Solutions | 115,610 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BNY Mellon | 112,667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Lincoln Financial | 104,224 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
Showing the 25 largest of 63 asset managers. All 63 are in the interactive database (link above).
100% of fund votes cast · no official result
The 2 asset managers below reported 142,009 for. The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empower | 136,655 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| CLEARWATER INVESTMENT TRUST | 5,354 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
96% of fund votes cast · no official result
Description as filed by funds: A PROPOSAL TO APPROVE ONE OR MORE ADJOURNMENTS OF THE SPECIAL MEETING, IF NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE, FROM TIME TO TIME, TO A LATER DATE OR DATES, EVEN IF A QUORUM IS PRESENT, TO SOLICIT ADDITIONAL PROXIES IF THERE ARE NOT SUFFICIENT VOTES AT THE TIME OF THE SPECIAL MEETING TO APPROVE THE ASSET SALE PROPOSAL.
The 64 asset managers below reported 44,899,644 for, 1,723,187 against, 40,803 abstained. The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock | 16,073,885 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Vanguard | 14,414,606 | 9 | 3 | 0 | For |
| Fidelity | 2,842,996 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Charles Schwab | 2,105,899 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Global X | 2,013,741 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| State Street | 5,175 | 1,544,668 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| VanEck ETF Trust | 1,203,838 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Invesco | 1,169,374 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| First Trust | 918,417 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| JPMorgan | 379,761 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| TIAA | 316,424 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Equitable | 306,321 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Columbia Threadneedle | 279,659 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| PIMCO | 241,088 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| QUANTITATIVE MASTER SERIES LLC | 228,066 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Jackson National | 222,103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Principal | 206,087 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| WisdomTree | 197,644 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| New Age Alpha Funds Trust | 150,193 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| HOTCHKIS & WILEY FUNDS /DE/ | 134,600 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Bridge Builder Trust | 119,028 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Brighthouse | 76,156 | 0 | 40,800 | 0 | Mixed |
| ETF Series Solutions | 115,610 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BNY Mellon | 112,667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Lincoln Financial | 8,443 | 95,781 | 0 | 0 | Mixed |
Showing the 25 largest of 64 asset managers. All 64 are in the interactive database (link above).
100% of fund votes cast · no official result
The 2 asset managers below reported 142,009 for. The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empower | 136,655 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| CLEARWATER INVESTMENT TRUST | 5,354 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
Ranked separately for each type of Form N-PX report. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two tables can list the same shares and are never added together. Each is ranked by the shares voted on the item that the most managers of that type reported, shown as a share of the 139,598,983 shares outstanding at the time of that meeting.
| # | Asset manager | % of shares outstanding |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BlackRock | 11.51% |
| 2 | Vanguard | 10.33% |
| 3 | Fidelity | 2.04% |
| 4 | Charles Schwab | 1.51% |
| 5 | Global X | 1.44% |
| 6 | State Street | 1.11% |
| 7 | VanEck ETF Trust | 0.86% |
| 8 | Invesco | 0.84% |
| 9 | First Trust | 0.66% |
| 10 | JPMorgan | 0.27% |
As disclosed to the SEC in Form 13F (quarter-end holdings of 30 large managers), Schedules 13D and 13G (beneficial ownership above 5%) and the company’s own proxy statement (DEF 14A). Each row names its form.
| Holder | % outstanding | Disclosure |
|---|---|---|
| BlackRock | 15.17% | 13F |
| Vanguard Group | 10.81% | 13F |
| Newtyn Management, LLC | 7.39% | 13G |
| Vanguard Portfolio Management | 4.40% | 13G |
| State Street | 3.77% | 13F |
| Vanguard Capital Management | 3.25% | 13G |
| Geode Capital | 2.38% | 13F |
| Invesco | 1.55% | 13F |
| Charles Schwab | 1.55% | 13F |
| Morgan Stanley | 1.40% | 13F |
Percentages above are of 139,598,983 shares outstanding, as reported by Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. on its Form 10-K dated February 9, 2026 (see the filing on EDGAR). This is the count contemporaneous with the 2025-2026 meeting, not today’s. Each holding is as of its own filing, which may be dated before or after the meeting.
Every figure above is derived from filings made with the US Securities and Exchange Commission: Form N-PX, in which registered funds disclose how they voted every proxy and institutional managers disclose their votes on executive pay (say-on-pay, say-on-frequency and golden parachutes), and Form 8-K Item 5.07, in which the company reports its own meeting results. Shares outstanding are taken from Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.’s 10-K dated February 9, 2026. This page is a static snapshot rebuilt weekly on November 8, 2026; a live search always shows the current data.
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