UNITED STATES
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Shareholder Meeting to Be Held on May 21, 2015.
Meeting Information
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THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. | Meeting Type: Annual
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For holders as of: March 23, 2015 | ||||||
Date: May 21, 2015 Time: 8:30 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time
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Location: 555 California Street | ||||||
45th Floor | ||||||
San Francisco, CA 94104
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You are receiving this communication because you hold shares in the company named above. | ||||||
THE GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. 200 WEST STREET NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10282 |
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PROXY STATEMENT 2014 ANNUAL REPORT TO SHAREHOLDERS
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Voting Items | ||||||||||||
The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR proposal 1: | ||||||||||||
1. | Election of Directors |
1a. | Lloyd C. Blankfein |
1b. | M. Michele Burns |
1c. | Gary D. Cohn |
1d. | Mark Flaherty |
1e. | William W. George |
1f. | James A. Johnson |
1g. | Lakshmi N. Mittal |
1h. | Adebayo O. Ogunlesi |
1i. | Peter Oppenheimer |
1j. | Debora L. Spar |
1k. | Mark E. Tucker |
1l. | David A. Viniar |
1m. | Mark O. Winkelman |
The Board of Directors recommends you vote FORproposals 2-4:
2. | Advisory Vote to Approve Executive Compensation (Say on Pay) |
3. | Approval of The Goldman Sachs Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan (2015) |
4. | Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for 2015 |
The Board of Directors recommends you vote AGAINSTproposals 5-7:
5. | Shareholder Proposal Regarding Vote-Counting |
6. | Shareholder Proposal Regarding Vesting of Equity Awards Upon Entering Government Service |
7. | Shareholder Proposal Regarding Right to Act by Written Consent |
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