Result of AGM

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Standard Life Private Eqty Trst PLC
22 March 2022
 

STANDARD LIFE PRIVATE EQUITY TRUST PLC

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 2138004MK7VPTZ99EV13

 

22 March 2022

 

Result of Annual General Meeting

 

Standard Life Private Equity Trust plc announces that, at the Annual General Meeting held today, all resolutions were duly passed on a show of hands. The proxy votes received in respect of the resolutions proposed at the meeting are shown in the table below:

 


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 the Annual Report and Financial Statements

109,488,763

100.00%

2,363

0.00%

11,772

109,491,126

2.   Approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy

109,312,494

99.88%

132,091

0.12%

58,312

109,444,585

3.  Approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

109,324,664

99.88%

127,247

0.12%

50,987

109,451,911

4.   Approve the Dividend Policy

109,481,736

100.00%

594

0.00%

20,569

109,482,330

5.  Elect Mr Agble

109,395,324

99.95%

58,922

0.05%

48,652

109,454,246

6.   Re-elect Mr Devine

109,415,160

99.97%

37,878

0.03%

49,859

109,453,038

7.   Re-elect Ms Seymour-Williams

109,413,746

99.96%

39,264

0.04%

49,888

109,453,010

8.   Elect Ms Stillhart

109,392,701

99.94%

61,604

0.06%

48,592

109,454,305

9.   Re-elect Mr Thomson

109,335,703

99.90%

109,054

0.10%

58,141

109,444,757

10.   Re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor

109,423,966

99.96%

47,023

0.04%

31,909

109,470,989

11.   Remuneration of the Auditor

109,455,206

99.99%

11,544

0.01%

30,681

109,466,750

12.   Allotment of new equity

109,412,632

99.93%

72,318

0.07%

17,947

109,484,950

13.   Disapply  pre-emption rights

109,345,572

99.89%

119,847

0.11%

37,479

109,465,419

14.   Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares

107,295,750

98.00%

2,191,188

2.00%

15,959

109,486,938

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

109,227,395

99.76%

260,590

0.24%

14,913

109,487,985

16.  Change the Company's name to abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust plc

109,071,964

99.63%

410,252

0.37%

20,682

109,482,216

 

As previously announced, Christina McComb retired from the Board and as Chair of the Company at the conclusion of the AGM.  Alan Devine succeeded Ms McComb as Chair and Calum Thomson was appointed as the Senior Independent Director.

 

In relation to Resolution 16, to change the name of the Company to "abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust plc", the Company will submit the appropriate documentation to Companies House and anticipates that the change of name will be effective within the next few days. A further announcement will be made by the Company at that time.

 

The Manager's presentation is available on the Company's website.

 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 September 2021, as previously submitted to the National Storage Mechanism.   

 

Under listing rule 9.6.2 a copy of the resolutions has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism, and will shortly be made 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

 

22 March 2022

 

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