Result of AGM

Aberdeen Group PLC

29 April 2026

 

Aberdeen Group plc

Results of Annual General Meeting

Results of AGM

The Board of Aberdeen Group plc ('the Company') is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held on Wednesday 29 April 2026 were duly passed.

The results of the polls were as follows:

	For	% For	Against	Total Votes Validly Cast	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1: To receive and consider the annual report and accounts 2025	786,153,234	99.94	441,556	786,594,790	4,515,363
Resolution 2: To declare a final dividend for 2025	790,457,610	99.95	433,826	790,891,436	218,717
Resolution 3: To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditors	789,561,879	99.86	1,093,052	790,654,931	455,222
Resolution 4: To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to set the auditors' fees	789,665,119	99.87	1,054,390	790,719,509	385,937
Resolution 5: To approve the Directors' remuneration report, excluding the Remuneration Policy	780,299,944	98.71	10,232,982	790,532,926	577,227
Resolution 6: To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy	619,187,424	78.36	171,019,302	790,206,726	903,427
Resolution 7: To approve the proposed amendments to the Aberdeen Group plc Executive Long Term Incentive Plan 2024	729,133,048	92.25	61,235,360	790,368,408	741,745
Resolution 8A: To re-elect Vivek Ahuja as a Director	778,508,729	98.49	11,928,461	790,437,190	672,963
Resolution 8B: To re-elect Jonathan Asquith as a Director	773,383,989	97.84	17,085,914	790,469,903	640,250
Resolution 8C: To re-elect Katie Bickerstaffe as a Director	662,448,626	83.81	127,992,152	790,440,778	669,375
Resolution 8D: To re-elect John Devine as a Director	644,247,516	96.95	20,272,945	664,520,461	126,589,692
Resolution 8E: To re-elect Hannah Grove as a Director	767,080,822	98.08	14,981,732	782,062,554	9,047,599
Resolution 8F: To re-elect Cathleen Raffaeli as a Director	789,305,582	99.85	1,149,331	790,454,913	655,240
Resolution 8G: To re-elect Jason Windsor as a Director	789,112,263	99.83	1,347,332	790,459,595	650,558
Resolution 9A: To elect Siobhan Boylan as a Director	788,573,713	99.77	1,857,035	790,430,748	679,405
Resolution 10: To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	658,988,380	99.13	5,777,752	664,766,132	126,344,021
Resolution 11: To authorise the Directors to issue further shares	788,490,848	99.72	2,179,333	790,670,181	434,828
Resolution 12 (Special): To disapply share pre-emption rights	661,776,940	83.72	128,699,341	790,476,281	633,872
Resolution 13 (Special): To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 5% of its issued ordinary shares	789,429,893	99.87	1,063,484	790,493,377	616,776
Resolution 14: To authorise the Directors to allot shares in relation to the issuance of Convertible Bonds	662,668,982	83.82	127,881,009	790,549,991	560,162
Resolution 15 (Special): To disapply pre-emption rights in respect of allotments of equity securities in relation to the issuance of Convertible Bonds	658,000,906	83.25	132,413,057	790,413,963	696,190
Resolution 16 (Special): To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 clear days' notice	769,020,492	97.25	21,739,294	790,759,786	345,026

While the Board is pleased that all resolutions were supported by a significant majority of shareholders, the Board notes that Resolution 6 (Directors' Remuneration Policy) was approved with a 78.36% majority. We will continue to engage with major shareholders who voted against Resolution 6 in accordance with the UK Corporate Governance Code.

Other Matters

Further to the announcement made on 26 March 2026, Sir Douglas Flint did not seek re-election and retired from the Board at the conclusion of the Company's Board meeting on 28 April 2026. 

The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on Tuesday 28 April 2026 was 1,840,745,255 ordinary shares of 13⁶¹/₆₃ pence each.

Votes withheld are not a vote in law and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution, the total votes validly cast or the calculation of the proportion of issued share capital voted.

Copies of all resolutions are available for inspection in the Notice of AGM previously submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

In accordance with UK Listing Rule 6.4.2, copies of the resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will also be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

The Notice of AGM and the voting results are also available on the Aberdeen Group plc website at: www.aberdeenplc.com

29 April 2026

Enquiries:

Group Secretariat Rose Edwards	[phone]
Media Duncan Young	[phone]
Institutional Equity Investors Duncan Heath	[phone]

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