Result of AGM

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IG Group Holdings plc

21 September 2016

 

IG Group Holdings plc
21 September 2016

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

The Board of IG Group Holdings plc (the "Company"), a global leader in online trading, 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. A poll was conducted on each resolution proposed at the Meeting.  The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions and the number of votes withheld were as follows:

RESOLUTIONS			VOTES FOR	%	VOTES AGAINST	%	VOTES TOTAL	Votes cast as % of Issued Share Capital	VOTES WITHHELD*
1.	To receive the accounts for the year ended 31 May 2016 and accompanying reports		300,892,545	99.94	180,969	0.06	301,073,514	82.04%	23,825
2.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report		278,197,945	97.20	8,001,015	2.80	286,198,960	77.99%	14,898,379
3.	To declare a final dividend of 22.95 pence per share		301,097,339	100.00	0	0.00	301,097,339	82.05%	0
4.	To re-elect Andy Green as a Director		299,470,888	99.77	700,792	0.23	300,171,680	81.79%	925,659
5.	To re-elect Peter Hetherington as a Director		300,891,867	99.93	201,047	0.07	301,092,914	82.05%	4,425
6.	To re-elect June Felix as a Director		300,918,760	99.94	173,534	0.06	301,092,294	82.05%	5,045
7.	To re-elect Stephen Hill as a Director		300,795,606	99.90	296,704	0.10	301,092,310	82.05%	5,029
8.	To re-elect Malcolm Le May as a Director		300,601,177	99.84	491,117	0.16	301,092,294	82.05%	5,045
9.	To re-elect Jim Newman as a Director		300,532,548	99.82	547,975	0.18	301,080,523	82.04%	16,816
10.	To re-elect Sam Tymms as a Director		300,446,943	99.78	649,776	0.22	301,096,719	82.05%	620
11.	To elect Paul Mainwaring as a Director		300,548,211	99.82	548,508	0.18	301,096,719	82.05%	620
12.	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company		296,181,749	98.37	4,910,716	1.63	301,092,465	82.05%	4,874
13.		To authorise the Audit Committee of the Board to determine the auditors' remuneration	298,659,997	99.19	2,437,142	0.81	301,097,139	82.05%	200
14.		To authorise the Directors to allot shares	284,853,974	94.61	16,243,364	5.39	301,097,338	82.05%	0
15.		To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares	293,120,619	99.96	108,048	0.04	293,228,667	79.90%	7,868,672
16.		To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares for the purposes of acquisitions or other capital investments	275,623,218	94.00	17,605,449	6.00	293,228,667	79.90%	7,868,672
17.		To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares	298,194,663	99.04	2,900,288	0.96	301,094,951	82.05%	2,388
18.		That a general meeting (other than an AGM) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice	280,568,349	93.18	20,527,290	6.82	301,095,639	82.05%	1,700
19.		To adopt new Articles of Association	297,846,875	99.95	162,840	0.05	298,009,715	81.21%	3,087,624

*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.

As at 6.00pm on Monday 19 September 2016, 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 366,981,583 ordinary shares in issue. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. 

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.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

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 an award-winning multi-platform trading company, the world's No.1 provider of CFDs* and a global leader in forex, and it now offers an execution-only stockbroking service in the UK, Australia, Ireland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.

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

*Based on revenue excluding FX, published financial statements, September 2015.

 

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