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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001517302-26-000097"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "APAM"
cik: "0001517302"
company_name: "Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc."
filed_at: "2026-06-03T21:04:48+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T21:09:21.097212+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Artisan Partners annual meeting elects all nine directors, approves say-on-pay and auditor

## Summary
- All nine director nominees elected with over 63M votes for each; highest withheld was 2.38M for Matthew R. Barger.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 63.5M for, 1.96M against, 148k abstain.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor ratified: 67.8M for, 2.39M against, 49k abstain.
- Approximately 4.6M broker non-votes on director and say-on-pay proposals; annual meeting held June 3, 2026.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001517302-26-000097
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: APAM
- cik: 0001517302
- company_name: Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-06-03T21:04:48+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517302/000151730226000097/0001517302-26-000097-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1517302/000151730226000097/apam-20260603.htm

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