Announcement of Result of 2017 AGM

RNS Number : 5990F
Hiscox Ltd
18 May 2017
 

Hiscox Ltd

 

(the 'Company')

 

 

Hamilton, Bermuda - Hiscox Ltd announces that all resolutions proposed at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held today 18 May 2017, were duly passed on a show of hands.

 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2R copies of all resolutions passed at the AGM have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available to view at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

 

Details of the proxy votes lodged at the meeting are set out below:

 

Resolution Number and description

For

%

Against

%

Withheld

1.   Report and Accounts

 

209,212,831

99.59

870,205

0.41

584,692

2.   Remuneration Policy

 

177,072,418

84.46

32,579,285

15.54

1,016.024

3.   Remuneration Report

164,615,533

80.74

39,277,567

19.26

6,774,627

4.   Final Dividend

210,081,432

99.999

1,604

0.001

584,692

5.   To re-appoint Lynn Carter

 

209,483,590

99.71

599,446

0.29

584,692

6.   To re-appoint Robert Childs

 

199,491,540

98.90

2,222,631

1.10

8,953,557

7.   To re-appoint Caroline Foulger

 

206,322,578

98.21

3,760,458

1.79

584,692

8.   To re-appoint Hamayou Akbar Hussain

 

209,510,964

99.73

572,072

0.27

584,692

9.   To re-appoint Ernst Jansen

 

209,485,325

99.72

597,711

0.28

584,692

10.  To re-appoint Colin Keogh

 

206,575,986

99.57

896,888

0.43

3,194,854

11.  To re-appoint Anne MacDonald

 

209,485,325

99.72

597,711

0.28

584,692

12.  To re-appoint Bronislaw Masojada

 

209,510,964

99.73

572,072

0.27

584,962

13.  To re-appoint Robert McMillan

 

209,483,921

99.71

599,115

0.29

584,692

14.  To re-appoint Gunnar Stokholm

 

209,483,921

99.71

599,115

0.29

584,692

15.  To re-appoint Richard Watson

 

209,508,391

99.73

574,645

0.27

584,692

16.  To appoint PwC as auditors

 

209,941,631

99.93

140,628

0.07

585,469

17.  To authorise the Audit Committee to determine Auditors' remuneration

210,040,859

99.98

42,177

0.02

584,692

18.  To authorise the Directors to allot shares

204,030,254

97.23

5,816,733

2.77

820,741

19.  To dis-apply pre-emption rights*

 

206,227,258

98.16

3,855,778

1.84

584,692

20.  To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares*

207,011,639

98.56

3,030,038

1.44

625,649

 

 

Resolutions 19 and 20 were passed as special resolutions.

A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes against the resolution.

 

 

 

Jeremy Pinchin

 

Company Secretary

Hiscox Ltd

+ 1 441 278 8300

 

 


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