Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3328F

Standard Life plc

16 May 2017

 

Standard Life plc

Results of Annual General Meeting 

The Board of Standard Life plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting held earlier today, Tuesday 16 May 2017, were duly passed.

The results of the polls were as follows:

	For	% For	Against	Total Votes Validly Cast	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1: To receive and consider the Annual report and accounts for 2016	787,562,658	99.93	557,218	788,119,876	5,621,363
Resolution 2: To declare a final dividend for 2016	793,003,137	99.94	475,622	793,478,759	269,643
Resolution 3: To appoint KPMG LLP as auditors	789,926,762	99.65	2,777,880	792,704,642	1,044,750
Resolution 4: To authorise the audit committee to set the auditors' fees	789,906,532	99.73	2,130,435	792,036,967	1,710,074
Resolution 5: To approve the Directors' remuneration report, excluding the remuneration policy	765,570,038	97.47	19,888,754	785,458,792	8,290,600
Resolution 6A: To re-elect Sir Gerald Grimstone as a Director	776,923,972	98.14	14,688,221	791,612,193	2,137,199
Resolution 6B: To re-elect Colin Clark as a Director	789,422,189	99.75	2,016,371	791,438,560	2,306,804
Resolution 6C: To re-elect Pierre Danon as a Director	781,472,760	98.75	9,857,551	791,330,311	2,402,655
Resolution 6D: To re-elect Melanie Gee as a Director	785,926,025	99.29	5,591,598	791,517,623	2,230,635
Resolution 6E: To re-elect Noel Harwerth as a Director	788,442,318	99.62	2,970,749	791,413,067	2,332,326
Resolution 6F: To re-elect Kevin Parry as a Director	787,543,477	99.51	3,860,309	791,403,786	2,341,336
Resolution 6G: To re-elect Lynne Peacock as a Director	789,085,959	99.69	2,415,789	791,501,748	2,244,952
Resolution 6H: To re-elect Martin Pike as a Director	789,064,987	99.71	2,282,970	791,347,957	2,398,743
Resolution 6I: To re-elect Luke Savage as a Director	788,063,494	99.58	3,347,679	791,411,173	2,334,673
Resolution 6J: To re-elect Keith Skeoch as a Director	788,882,743	99.67	2,615,453	791,498,196	2,248,504
Resolution 7A: To elect John Devine as a Director	788,562,181	99.67	2,582,914	791,145,095	2,599,690
Resolution 7B: To elect Barry O'Dwyer as a Director	788,727,686	99.69	2,452,560	791,180,246	2,569,146
Resolution 8: To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	753,401,248	96.57	26,766,242	780,167,490	13,580,847
Resolution 9: To authorise the Directors to issue further shares	784,763,701	99.06	7,412,097	792,175,798	1,572,442
Resolution 10 (Special): To disapply share pre-emption rights	784,452,824	99.24	5,990,982	790,443,806	3,305,586
Resolution 11 (Special): To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares	781,627,871	98.70	10,319,278	791,947,149	1,800,612
Resolution 12 (Special): To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days' notice	728,257,988	92.66	57,724,738	785,982,726	7,764,272

The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on Friday 12 May 2017 was 1,979,415,429 ordinary shares of 12²/₉ pence each.

Votes withheld are not a vote in law and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution, the total votes validly cast or the calculation of the proportion of issued share capital voted.

Copies of all resolutions are available for inspection in the AGM Guide previously submitted to the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, via the National Storage Mechanism at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will then be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

The AGM Guide and the voting results are also available on the Standard Life plc website at www.standardlife.com 

16 May 2017

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