Result of AGM

RNS Number : 2223T
Standard Life Private Eqty Trst PLC
23 March 2021
 

STANDARD LIFE PRIVATE EQUITY TRUST PLC

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 2138004MK7VPTZ99EV13

 

23 March 2021

 

Result of Annual General Meeting

 

Standard Life Private Equity Trust plc (the "Company") hereby gives notification that, at the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the Company held earlier today, Tuesday 23 March 2021, all the Resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting included within the Annual Report and available on the Company's website, www.slpet.co.uk * were duly passed on a show of hands, exception Resolution 4.

 

Resolution 4 was withdrawn by the Chair and not put to a vote of shareholders at the AGM following Jonathon Bond's intimation that he intended to resign as a Director of the Company for personal reasons.  Following the withdrawal of the resolution, Mr Bond did not seek re-election to the Board and resigned with effect from the conclusion of the AGM on 23 March 2021. 

 

The Board wishes to thank Mr Bond for his considerable contribution to the Company and wishes him well in his future endeavours.

 

The total number of proxy votes lodged for the Annual General Meeting were as follows:

 

 

For and Discretionary

Against

Votes

Total Votes

Resolution

Number

No. of

Votes

% of

Votes Cast

No. of

Votes

% of

Votes Cast

Withheld 

(excluding Votes Withheld)

1. Receive Report & Accounts

112,203,115

100.00

0

0.00

4,277

112,203,115

2. Approve Directors' Remuneration Report

112,075,859

99.91

103,240

0.09

28,292

112,179,099

3. Approve Company's Dividend Policy

112,198,787

100.00

0

0.00

8,605

112,198,787

4. Re-elect Mr Bond

Resolution Withdrawn

5. Re-elect Mr Devine

112,144,566

100.00

1,712

0.00

61,113

112,146,278

6. Re-elect Ms McComb

112,135,657

100.00

1,947

0.00

69,787

112,137,604

7. Re-elect Ms Seymour-Williams

112,144,500

100.00

1,778

0.00

61,113

112,146,278

8. Re-elect Mr Thomson

112,069,200

99.94

70,669

0.06

67,523

112,139,869

9. Re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor

112,158,026

99.97

29,327

0.03

20,038

112,187,353

10. Remuneration of the Auditor

112,164,087

99.99

7,258

0.01

36,047

112,171,345

11. Allotment of new equity

112,099,685

99.95

58,008

0.05

49,699

112,157,693

12. Disapply  pre-emption rights

112,070,816

99.91

97,790

0.09

38,786

112,168,606

13. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares

109,657,928

97.74

2,540,679

2.26

8,784

112,198,607

14. Approve holding meetings on less than 14 days' notice

112,050,074

99.88

136,621

0.12

20,696

112,186,695

15. Approve new Articles of Association

112,062,129

99.92

87,346

0.08

33,917

112,149,475

 

A presentation from the Manager will shortly be available on the Company's website.

 

A copy of the AGM resolutions which require to be lodged with the UKLA have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism (NSM) and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism *

 

* Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

 

For Standard Life Private Equity Trust plc

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

Company Secretary

 

23 March 2021

 

Tel: 0131 372 2200

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