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accession: "0001685040-25-000038"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BHF"
cik: "0001685040"
company_name: "Brighthouse Financial, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T06:35:56.860040+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Stockholders approve amended 2017 Stock and Incentive Compensation Plan

## Summary
- Nine director nominees elected with >37.5M votes each; no dissident candidates.
- Deloitte & Touche ratified as independent auditor for FY2025; 42.8M for, 198k against.
- Say-on-Pay advisory vote passed: 35.2M for (93%) vs 2.5M against.
- Amended compensation plan approved (33.2M for); adds 2,789,624 shares to reserve.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001685040-25-000038
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BHF
- cik: 0001685040
- company_name: Brighthouse Financial, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1685040/000168504025000038/0001685040-25-000038-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1685040/000168504025000038/bhf-20250616.htm

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