secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Ellington Financial Inc. (EFC)
CIK:        0001411342
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001411342-23-000102
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.15
Item codes: 5.07
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Ellington Financial shareholders approve doubling authorized common shares to 200M
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- All five director nominees elected, each with over 80% of votes cast in favor.
- Charter amendment approved: authorized common shares increased from 100M to 200M; total shares from 200M to 300M.
- Advisory 'say-on-pay' passed (34.7M for, 4.4M against); frequency set at one year.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as 2023 auditor: 53.9M votes for, 487K against.
- Broker non-votes applied to director election, charter amendment, and say-on-pay; none on auditor ratification.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000141134223000102/0001411342-23-000102-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000141134223000102/efc-20230516.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001411342-23-000102

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