NOTICE OF 2018 ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS Date and Time VOTING Wednesday, May 16, 2018 12:30 p.m. EDT Location One Hartford Plaza Hartford, CT 06155 By internet By toll-free telephone On behalf of the Board of Directors, I am pleased to invite you www.proxyvote.com 1-800-690-6903 to attend the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. to be held in the Wallace Stevens Theater at our Home Office at 12:30 p.m. EDT. Voting Items Shareholders will vote on the following items of business: By mail 1. Elect a Board of Directors for the coming year; Follow instructions on In person your proxy card At the Annual Meeting 2. Ratify the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018; IMPORTANT INFORMATION IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND THE MEETING IN PERSON: 3. Consider and approve, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers as Please remember to bring your ticket and government issued disclosed in this proxy statement; and ID! Shareholders can obtain an admission ticket and directions to the meeting by contacting our Investor Relations 4. Act upon any other business that may properly come Department: before the Annual Meeting or any adjournment thereof. Email:
[email protected] Record Date Telephone: (860) 547-2537 You may vote if you were a shareholder of record at the close of business on March 19, 2018. The Hartford’s proxy Mail: The Hartford materials are available via the internet, which allows us to Attn: Investor Relations reduce printing and delivery costs and lessen adverse One Hartford Plaza (TA1-1) environmental impacts.