Result of AGM

RNS Number : 8865L

RIT Capital Partners PLC

30 April 2015

 



RIT Capital Partners plc

30 April 2015

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of RIT Capital Partners plc was held on Thursday 30 April 2015.

All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 26 February 2015 were passed, and prints of the items of special business passed will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism.

The proxy votes cast on each resolution were as follows:

		FOR/		VOTES
RESOLUTION		DISCRETIONARY	AGAINST	WITHHELD
ORDINARY BUSINESS:
1.	Approval of the Directors' Report and Accounts
	for the year ended 31 December 2014	58,420,228	242,385	2,255
2.	Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Report
	for the year ended 31 December 2014	58,058,123	560,056	45,248
3.	Re-election of Lord Rothschild as a Director	51,202,631	907,256	6,554,979
4.	Re-election of John Cornish as a Director	58,618,642	28,638	17,588
5.	Re-election of Jean Laurent-Bellue as a Director	58,563,971	80,665	17,938
6.	Election of John Makinson as a Director	58,622,526	28,888	13,454
7.	Re-election of Michael Marks as a Director	56,590,223	2,056,678	17,855
8.	Re-election of Lord Myners as a Director	58,605,251	47,940	11,677
9.	Re-election of Mike Power as a Director	58,618,330	33,497	13,041
10.	Re-election of Hannah Rothschild as a Director	58,088,410	564,243	12,216
11.	Election of Amy Stirling as a Director	58,650,607	9,841	4,420
12.	Re-election of The Duke of Wellington as a Director	58,560,416	92,677	11,774
13.	Re-election of Mike Wilson as a Director	58,617,855	32,596	14,417
14.	Re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
	as auditors	58,368,509	241,465	54,894
15.	To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration
	of the auditors	58,624,935	25,115	14,817
SPECIAL BUSINESS:
16.	To renew the power to allot equity securities	58,600,595	46,488	16,297
17.	To authorise the Directors to allot equity securities
	for cash.	58,608,559	45,087	9,734
18.	To renew the authority to repurchase up to 14.99
	per cent. of the Company's issued share capital	58,622,582	25,934	14,863
19.	To change the notice period for general meetings
	other than annual general meetings to 14 days	57,911,598	744,351	7,419

Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 19 were passed as special resolutions.

Proxy votes in favour of the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting to be cast at his discretion represented between 0.56% and 0.64% of all votes cast on the above resolutions.

 

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