Result of AGM 2021
13 May 2021
Quilter plc
Result of Annual General Meeting 2021
Quilter plc (the "Company") announces that at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today, all the resolutions put to shareholders were passed by the requisite majorities. Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 and 18 were passed as special resolutions.
The results of the poll are set out below.
|
|
Resolution |
Number of votes cast "For" the resolution |
% of votes cast "For" the resolution |
Number of votes cast "Against" the resolution |
% of votes cast "Against" the resolution |
Total number of votes cast |
% of issued share capital voted |
Number of votes Withheld |
|
1. |
To receive the 2020 Report and Accounts |
1,304,745,500 |
100.00 |
15,568 |
0.00 |
1,304,761,068 |
74.81 |
1,555,352 |
|
2. |
To approve the Remuneration Report (excluding the Directors' Remuneration Policy) |
1,235,244,118 |
96.88 |
39,808,026 |
3.12 |
1,275,052,144 |
73.11 |
31,260,900 |
|
3. |
To declare a final dividend |
1,304,104,235 |
99.86 |
1,879,970 |
0.14 |
1,305,984,205 |
74.88 |
333,748 |
|
4. |
To re-elect Tim Breedon as a Director |
1,305,362,064 |
99.96 |
570,860 |
0.04 |
1,305,932,924 |
74.88 |
381,963 |
|
5. |
To re-elect Tazim Essani as a Director |
1,305,874,153 |
100.00 |
41,841 |
0.00 |
1,305,915,994 |
74.88 |
398,893 |
|
6. |
To re-elect Paul Feeney as a Director |
1,304,983,613 |
99.93 |
947,567 |
0.07 |
1,305,931,180 |
74.88 |
385,240 |
|
7. |
To re-elect Rosie Harris as a Director |
1,305,870,860 |
100.00 |
43,566 |
0.00 |
1,305,914,426 |
74.88 |
400,461 |
|
8. |
To re-elect Glyn Jones as a Director |
1,305,353,710 |
99.96 |
568,687 |
0.04 |
1,305,922,397 |
74.88 |
394,023 |
|
9. |
To re-elect Moira Kilcoyne as a Director |
1,305,876,301 |
100.00 |
43,249 |
0.00 |
1,305,919,550 |
74.88 |
395,337 |
|
10. |
To re-elect Ruth Markland as a Director |
1,303,966,147 |
99.85 |
1,947,825 |
0.15 |
1,305,913,972 |
74.88 |
400,915 |
|
11. |
To re-elect Paul Matthews as a Director |
1,305,446,888 |
99.96 |
468,700 |
0.04 |
1,305,915,588 |
74.88 |
399,299 |
|
12. |
To re-elect George Reid as a Director |
1,305,450,041 |
99.96 |
466,993 |
0.04 |
1,305,917,034 |
74.88 |
396,320 |
|
13. |
To re-elect Mark Satchel as a Director |
1,305,783,472 |
99.99 |
136,977 |
0.01 |
1,305,920,449 |
74.88 |
395,971 |
|
14. |
To re-appoint Pricewaterhouse-Coopers LLP as Auditor of the Company |
1,303,617,100 |
99.82 |
2,343,883 |
0.18 |
1,305,960,983 |
74.88 |
355,437 |
|
15. |
To authorise the Board Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the Auditor |
1,305,642,539 |
99.98 |
324,962 |
0.02 |
1,305,967,501 |
74.88 |
348,919 |
|
16. |
To authorise political donations or expenditure by the Company and its subsidiaries |
1,068,742,194 |
82.07 |
233,464,408 |
17.93 |
1,302,206,602 |
74.67 |
4,111,351 |
|
17. |
To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares* |
1,278,886,005 |
97.95 |
26,785,354 |
2.05 |
1,305,671,359 |
74.86 |
645,061 |
|
18. |
To authorise the Company to enter into Contingent Purchase Contracts* |
1,302,855,984 |
99.81 |
2,491,032 |
0.19 |
1,305,347,016 |
74.85 |
969,404 |
*Special resolution
Notes:
i. As at 6:30pm on 11 May 2021, the time by which shareholders who wanted to vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, the number of issued shares in the Company was 1,744,055,918 ordinary shares. In accordance with the Company's articles of association, on a poll every member present in person or by proxy had one vote for every share held.
ii. Votes withheld are not votes in law and therefore have not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for or against a resolution.
iii. All percentages are shown to two decimal places.
Pursuant to UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of all resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed at the AGM today will be submitted to and available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available to view at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .
The poll results will also be available shortly on the Company's website at quilter.com/agm .
- ends -
Enquiries:
|
|
|
|
Investor Relations: John-Paul Crutchley
Keilah Codd
|
+44 (0)7741 385 251
+44 (0)7776 649 681 |
|
Company Secretary: Patrick Gonsalves |
+44 (0) 7391 867 081 |
|
Camarco G eoffrey Pelham-Lane
|
+44 (0)20 3757 4985 |
About Quilter plc:
Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business in the UK and internationally, helping to create prosperity for the generations of today and tomorrow.
Quilter oversees £119.9 billion in customer investments (as at 31 March 2021).
It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions and discretionary fund management.
The business is comprised of two segments: Advice and Wealth Management and Wealth Platforms.
Advice and Wealth Management encompasses the financial planning businesses (Quilter Private Client Advisers, Quilter Financial Planning and Quilter Financial Advisers), the discretionary fund management business (Quilter Cheviot) and the Multi-asset investment solutions business (Quilter Investors). Wealth Platforms includes the Old Mutual Wealth UK Platform and Quilter International, including AAM Advisory in Singapore.
RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the information contained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. For further information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy.
Latest directors dealings
- 16 hours ago Savannah Energy
- 17 hours ago Buccaneer Energy PLC
- 17 hours ago Savannah Energy
- 17 hours ago Carclo
- 17 hours ago Schroder Japan Growth Fund