Result of AGM

RNS Number : 4526C

IG Group Holdings plc

15 October 2015

 

IG Group Holdings plc
15 October 2015

Result of the Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

The Board of IG Group Holdings plc (the "Company") is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, all the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were duly passed by shareholders by show of hands.

Full details of the  votes lodged in advance of the meeting appointing the Chairman as proxy are given below.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do .

 

RESOLUTIONS		VOTES FOR		CHAIRMAN'S  DISCRETION		VOTES AGAINST		VOTES WITHHELD*
		No. of Votes	% of Votes Received	No. of Votes	% of Votes Received	No. of Votes	% of Votes Received	No. of Votes
1.	To receive the Report and Accounts	306,203,861	99.63	271,747	0.09	852,153	0.28	424,034
2.	To approve the Remuneration Report	291,724,694	98.92	273,244	0.09	2,921,312	0.99	12,832,545
3.	To declare a Final Dividend	307,072,517	99.91	271,747	0.09	0	0.00	407,531
4.	To re-elect Any Green	305,643,158	99.45	273,244	0.09	1,411,431	0.46	423,962
5.	To re-elect Peter Hetherington	306,686,480	99.79	273,244	0.09	382,420	0.12	409,651
6.	To re-elect Christopher Hill	306,630,245	99.77	281,577	0.09	429,162	0.14	410,811
7.	To re-elect Stephen Hill	306,652,025	99.78	273,244	0.08	414,986	0.14	411,540
8.	To re-elect Jim Newman	304,161,827	98.97	273,244	0.09	2,890,063	0.94	426,661
9.	To re-elect Samantha Tymms	306,241,042	99.64	273,244	0.09	825,969	0.27	411,540
10.	To elect June Felix	307,066,873	99.91	273,244	0.09	177	0.00	411,501
11.	To elect Malcolm Le May	307,067,011	99.91	273,244	0.09	39	0.00	411,501
12.	To re-appoint the auditors	303,185,949	98.65	273,244	0.09	3,882,353	1.26	410,249
13.	To authorise the Audit Committee to set the remuneration of the auditors	298,845,744	99.44	273,244	0.09	1,418,202	0.47	7,214,605
14.	To give authority to allot shares	291,490,325	94.84	273,244	0.09	15,577,544	5.07	410,682
15.	To disapply pre-emption rights	277,483,297	96.24	277,044	0.09	10,575,124	3.67	19,416,330
16.	To authorise the purchase of its own shares by the Company	307,003,017	99.89	271,747	0.09	68,539	0.02	408,492
17.	To authorise the Company to call a general meeting of Shareholders on not less than 14 clear days' notice	286,104,978	93.09	273,036	0.09	20,965,550	6.82	408,231

Tim Howkins and Roger Yates retired at the 2015 Annual General Meeting and did not seek re-election.  Tim Howkins and Roger Yates therefore resigned from the Board of the Company at the conclusion of the meeting.

As previously announced in RNS Number 5768T published on 21 July 2015, following Tim Howkins retirement, Peter Hetherington has now assumed the role of Interim Chief Executive Officer.

As at 6.00pm on Tuesday 13 October 2015, the time by which shareholders who wanted to attend, speak and vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, there were 366,649,075 ordinary shares in issue. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. 

*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes cast "For" or "Against" a resolution.

For further information, please contact:

IG Group

Kieran McKinney

Head of Investor Relations          020 7573 0026

FTI Consulting

Neil Doyle / Ed Berry     020 3727 1141 / 1046

IG is a global leader in online trading, providing fast and flexible access to over 10,000 financial markets - including shares, indices, forex, commodities and binaries.

Established in 1974 as the world's first financial spread betting firm, IG's aim is to become the default choice for active traders globally. It is already an award-winning multi-platform trading company, the world's No.1 provider of CFDs* and a global leader in forex, and it launched an execution-only stockbroking service in the UK and Ireland in September 2014.

It is a member of the FTSE 250, with offices across Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the US, where it offers limited risk derivatives contracts via the Nadex brand.

*Based on revenue excluding FX, published financial statements, July 2014.

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