Alliance Trust PLC : Result of AGM

Alliance Trust PLC

Annual General Meeting

At the Company's Annual General Meeting held on Thursday, 1 May 2014, Karin Forseke, Katherine Garrett-Cox, John Hylands, Alastair Kerr, Susan Noble, Win Robbins and Alan Trotter were re-elected as directors.

Karin Forseke, Chair of Alliance Trust commented:

'I would like to thank all of our shareholders who took the time to vote and also those who joined us at the Trust's 126^th Annual General Meeting in Dundee this morning. At the Meeting we explained that the Company has laid out its Vision 2020 and, as a Board, we are confident that the Group is well placed to capitalise on opportunities that will present themselves over the coming years.'

All resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting were carried on a poll. Votes received were:

	Resolution	Votes for	%	Votes against	%	Percentage of issued share capital voted	Votes withheld
1	Report & Accounts	192,519,636	99.13	1,688,564	0.87	34.67%	209.822
2	Directors' remuneration report (excluding remuneration policy)	180,311,078	93.80	11,918,409	6.20	34.32%	2,431,383
3	Directors' remuneration policy	171,460,998	89.22	20,716,232	10.78	34.31%	2,499,192
4	Re-election of Mrs Karin Forseke	191,775,618	98.86	2,210,605	1.14	34.63%	618,416
5	Re-election of Mrs Katherine Garrett-Cox	191,020,475	98.42	3,061,212	1.58	34.65%	555,064
6	Re-election of  Mr John Hylands	192,462,590	99.36	1,240,760	0.64	34.58%	941,969
7	Re-election of  Mr Alastair Kerr	191,613,053	99.07	1,789,602	0.93	34.53%	1,066,291
8	Re-election of Mrs Susan Noble	191,665,527	99.00	1,940,689	1.00	34.57%	930,172
9	Re-election of Ms Win Robbins	191,491,491	98.86	2,208,800	1.14	34.58%	986,473
10	Re-election of Mr Alan Trotter	192,320,973	99.25	1,457,096	0.75	34.60%	916,047
11	Re-appointment of Deloitte LLP as Auditor	191,976,106	98.97	1,997,480	1.03	34.63%	707,541
12	Remuneration of the Auditor	193,300,068	99.65	679,284	0.35	34.63%	694,189
13	Authority to purchase Company shares	191,953,864	98.75	2,436,928	1.25	34.71%	303,324
14	Authority to hold meetings at 14 days notice	185,420,259	95.49	8,759,579	4.51	34.67%	514,278

NOTES

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of resolutions 13 and 14, which were special resolutions, passed by the Company at its Annual General Meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at
http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

Evan Bruce-Gardyne
Alliance Trust PLC
Telephone: [phone] or 07501 500 243

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