Result of AGM

RNS Number : 3661D

Brooks Macdonald Group PLC

27 October 2020

 

BROOKS MACDONALD GROUP PLC

(the "Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting ('AGM')

The Company's 2020 AGM was held today as a closed meeting at 21 Lombard Street, London.  The Board is pleased to announce that all resolutions proposed at the meeting were passed on a poll.  The table below shows the total votes validly cast, being those votes for or against each resolution.  Total votes cast, including votes withheld, were over 13,603,392 Ordinary Shares, representing 84.32% of the O rdinary Shares in issue on 23 October 2020.

		For (see note 1)		Against (see note 1)		Votes withheld (see note 2)
		Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes
1	Receipt of the Annual Report and Accounts	13,531,002	100	0	0.00	72,390
2	Declaration of a final dividend	13,531,002	100	0	0.00	72,390
3	Approval of the Directors' remuneration report	12,525,574	92.81	970,845	7.19	106,973
4	Re-election of Alan Carruthers as a Director	13,531,002	100	0	0.00	72,390
5	Re-election of Caroline Connellan as a Director	13,530,814	100	0	0.00	72,578
6	Re-election of Ben Thorpe as a Director	13,531,002	100	0	0.00	72,390
7	Re-election of Richard Price as a Director	13,531,002	100	0	0.00	72,390
8	Re-election of John Linwood as a Director	13,191,133	97.49	339,869	2.51	72,390
9	Election of Dagmar Kershaw as a Director	13,531,002	100	0	0.00	72,390
10	Election of Robert Burgess as a Director	13,531,002	100	0	0.00	72,390
11	Re-appointment and remuneration of the Auditor	13,530,882	99.99	120	0.01	72,390
12	Political donations	10,784,890	93.22	783,967	6.78	2,034,535
13	Authority to allot new shares	13,085,883	96.71	445,119	3.29	72,390
14	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	12,915,332	95.45	615,670	4.55	72,390
15	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	12,761,663	94.31	769,339	5.69	72,390
16	Authority to purchase own shares	11,568,490	99.99	367	0.01	2,034,535
17	Notice periods for general meetings (other than AGM)	13,530,882	99.99	120	0.01	72,390

Notes

1.  Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes received. Any proxy appointments which gave the Chairman discretion have been included in the "For" total.

2.  A "Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.

3.  Resolutions 1 to 13 were ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 17 were special resolutions.

4.  The number of ordinary shares in issue as at 23 October 2020 was 16,132,936.

Enquiries to:

Brooks Macdonald Group PLC
Caroline Connellan, CEO	[phone]
Ben Thorpe, Group Finance Director	[phone]
Peel Hunt LLP
Adrian Trimmings / Rishi Shah / John Welch	[phone]
MHP Communications
Reg Hoare / Simon Hockridge / Charlie Barker	[phone]

Notes to editors

Brooks Macdonald Group plc, through its various subsidiaries, provides leading investment management services in the UK and internationally. The Group, which was founded in 1991 and began trading on AIM in 2005, had discretionary Funds under Management of £13.7 billion as at 30 September 2020.

Brooks Macdonald offers a range of investment management services to private high net worth individuals, pension funds, institutions, charities and trusts. The Group also provides financial planning as well as offshore investment management and acts as fund manager to two regulated OEICs (the IFSL Brooks Macdonald Fund and the SVS Cornelian Investment Funds) providing a range of risk-managed multi-asset funds and a specialised absolute return fund.

The Group has twelve offices across the UK and the Channel Islands including London, East Anglia, Hampshire, Leamington Spa, Leeds, Manchester, Taunton, Tunbridge Wells, Scotland, Wales, Jersey and Guernsey.

LEI: 213800WRDF8LB8MIEX37

 

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