Voting proxies that are received in connection with fund holdings are performed by each fund’s investment adviser or subadviser according to the adviser’s or subadviser’s proxy voting guidelines. These proxy voting guidelines cover a wide variety of individual topics, such as shareholder voting rights, the election of directors, executive and director compensation, reorganizations, mergers and various other shareholder proposals. Fund proxy voting guidelines and policies are grouped by subadvisers. Please contact us if you want to receive complete proxy voting guidelines and policies by mail.

Nationwide Fund Advisors Proxy Voting Policy

Nationwide Fund Advisors (NFA) is an SEC-registered investment advisor that is a manager of managers, which includes selecting subadvisers to provide investment advice and portfolio management services to the NMF and NVIT Funds (“the Funds”). As the adviser to the Funds, NFA has responsibility for and authority to vote proxies. NFA generally delegates its proxy voting authority to the Funds’ subadvisers pursuant to subadvisory agreements, placing the responsibility for and authority to vote proxies with the relevant subadviser on each Fund. NFA’s Proxy Voting Policy (PDF) is provided here on this website, along with the proxy voting policy of each subadviser with respect to the Fund it subadvises. The policies should be considered together — that of NFA and of each particular subadviser for a given Fund — but are provided here in their individual forms.

Voting guidelines and policies for Nationwide Mutual Funds

Nationwide Amundi Strategic Income Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide Bailard Cognitive Value Fund

Nationwide Bailard International Equities Fund

Nationwide Bailard Technology & Science Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide BNY Mellon Core Plus Bond ESG Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide BNY Mellon Dynamic U.S. Core Fund

Nationwide BNY Mellon Dynamic U.S. Equity Fund (formerly Nationwide BNY Mellon Disciplined Value Fund)

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide Bond Portfolio

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide Bond Fund

Nationwide Inflation-Protected Securities Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide Bond Index Fund

Nationwide International Index Fund

Nationwide Mid Cap Market Index Fund

Nationwide S&P 500 Index Fund

Nationwide Small Cap Index Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide Destination 2025 Fund

Nationwide Destination 2030 Fund

Nationwide Destination 2035 Fund

Nationwide Destination 2040 Fund

Nationwide Destination 2045 Fund

Nationwide Destination 2050 Fund

Nationwide Destination 2055 Fund

Nationwide Destination 2060 Fund

Nationwide Destination 2065 Fund

Nationwide Destination Retirement Fund

Nationwide Investor Destinations Aggressive Fund

Nationwide Investor Destinations Conservative Fund

Nationwide Investor Destinations Moderate Fund

Nationwide Investor Destinations Moderately Aggressive Fund

Nationwide Investor Destinations Moderately Conservative Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide Fund

Nationwide International Small Cap Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide GQG US Quality Equity Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide Geneva Mid Cap Growth Fund

Nationwide Geneva Small Cap Growth Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide Global Sustainable Equity Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide Government Money Market Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide Janus Henderson Overseas Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide Loomis All Cap Growth Fund

Nationwide Loomis Core Bond Fund

Nationwide Loomis Short Term Bond Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide NYSE Arca Tech 100 Index Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide Small Company Growth Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide U.S. 130/30 Equity Portfolio

Voting guidelines and policies

Nationwide WCM Focused Small Cap Fund

Voting guidelines and policies
Voting guidelines and policies for Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust Funds

NVIT Allspring Discovery Fund (formerly NVIT Wells Fargo Discovery Fund)

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Amundi Multi Sector Bond

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT AQR Large Cap Defensive Style Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT BNY Mellon Core Plus Bond Fund (formerly NVIT Core Plus Bond Fund)

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT BNY Mellon Dynamic U.S. Core Fund

NVIT BNY Mellon Dynamic U.S. Equity Income Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT BlackRock Equity Dividend Fund (formerly BlackRock NVIT Equity Dividend Fund)

NVIT BlackRock Managed Global Allocation Fund (formerly BlackRock NVIT Managed Global Allocation Fund)

NVIT Bond Index Fund

NVIT International Index Fund

NVIT iShares® Fixed Income ETF Fund

NVIT iShares® Global Equity ETF Fund

NVIT Mid Cap Index Fund

NVIT S&P 500 Index Fund

NVIT Small Cap Index Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Blueprint® Managed Growth & Income Fund

NVIT Blueprint® Managed Growth Fund

NVIT Core Bond Fund

NVIT Government Bond Fund

NVIT Investor Destinations Managed Growth & Income Fund

NVIT Investor Destinations Managed Growth Fund

NVIT Managed American Funds Asset Allocation Fund

NVIT Managed American Funds Growth-Income Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Blueprint® Aggressive Fund

NVIT Blueprint® Balanced Fund

NVIT Blueprint® Capital Appreciation Fund

NVIT Blueprint® Conservative Fund

NVIT Blueprint® Moderate Fund

NVIT Blueprint® Moderately Aggressive Fund

NVIT Blueprint® Moderately Conservative Fund

NVIT Investor Destinations Aggressive Fund

NVIT Investor Destinations Balanced Fund

NVIT Investor Destinations Capital Appreciation Fund

NVIT Investor Destinations Conservative Fund

NVIT Investor Destinations Moderate Fund

NVIT Investor Destinations Moderately Aggressive Fund

NVIT Investor Destinations Moderately Conservative Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Calvert Equity Fund (formerly NVIT BNY Mellon Sustainable U.S. Equity Fund)

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Columbia Overseas Value Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT DoubleLine Total Return Tactical Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Emerging Markets Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Federated High Income Bond Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT GS Emerging Markets Equity Insights Fund

NVIT GS International Equity Insights Fund

NVIT GS Small Cap Equity Insights Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Government Money Market Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT International Equity Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Invesco Small Cap Growth Fund (formerly NVIT Multi-Manager Small Cap Growth Fund)

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT J.P. Morgan Digital Evolution Strategy Fund

NVIT J.P. Morgan Innovators Fund

NVIT J.P. Morgan Large Cap Growth Fund

NVIT J.P. Morgan MozaicSM Multi-Asset Fund

NVIT J.P. Morgan U.S. Equity Fund

NVIT J.P. Morgan U.S. Technology Leaders Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Jacobs Levy Large Cap Core Fund (formerly NVIT Neuberger Berman Multi Cap Opportunities Fund)

NVIT Jacobs Levy Large Cap Growth Fund

NVIT U.S. 130/30 Equity Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Loomis Short Term Bond Fund (formerly NVIT Short Term Bond Fund)

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Multi-Manager Small Cap Value Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Multi-Manager Small Company Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT NS Partners International Focused Growth Fund (formerly NVIT AllianzGI International Growth Fund)

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Real Estate Fund

Voting guidelines and policies

NVIT Victory Mid Cap Value Fund (formerly NVIT Multi-Manager Mid Cap Value Fund)

Voting guidelines and policies

Proxy voting record

Read these documents to see fund proxy voting records related to portfolio securities during the most recent 12-month period ending June 30.

Nationwide Mutual Funds

Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust

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