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RNS Number : 4745C  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:                                                                   786,153,234  99.94  441,556      786,594,790               4,515,363

 To receive and consider the annual report and accounts 2025
 Resolution 2:                                                                   790,457,610  99.95  433,826      790,891,436               218,717

 To declare a final dividend for 2025
 Resolution 3:                                                                   789,561,879  99.86  1,093,052    790,654,931               455,222

 To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditors
 Resolution 4:                                                                   789,665,119  99.87  1,054,390    790,719,509               385,937

 To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to set the auditors' fees
 Resolution 5:                                                                   780,299,944  98.71  10,232,982   790,532,926               577,227

 To approve the Directors' remuneration report, excluding the Remuneration
 Policy
 Resolution 6:                                                                   619,187,424  78.36  171,019,302  790,206,726               903,427

 To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy
 Resolution 7:                                                                   729,133,048  92.25  61,235,360   790,368,408               741,745

 To approve the proposed amendments to the Aberdeen Group plc Executive Long
 Term Incentive Plan 2024
 Resolution 8A:                                                                  778,508,729  98.49  11,928,461   790,437,190               672,963

 To re-elect Vivek Ahuja as a Director
 Resolution 8B:                                                                  773,383,989  97.84  17,085,914   790,469,903               640,250

 To re-elect Jonathan Asquith as a Director
 Resolution 8C:                                                                  662,448,626  83.81  127,992,152  790,440,778               669,375

 To re-elect Katie Bickerstaffe as a Director
 Resolution 8D:                                                                  644,247,516  96.95  20,272,945   664,520,461               126,589,692

 To re-elect John Devine as a Director
 Resolution 8E:                                                                  767,080,822  98.08  14,981,732   782,062,554               9,047,599

 To re-elect Hannah Grove as a Director
 Resolution 8F:                                                                  789,305,582  99.85  1,149,331    790,454,913               655,240

 To re-elect Cathleen Raffaeli as a Director
 Resolution 8G:                                                                  789,112,263  99.83  1,347,332    790,459,595               650,558

 To re-elect Jason Windsor as a Director
 Resolution 9A:                                                                  788,573,713  99.77  1,857,035    790,430,748               679,405

 To elect Siobhan Boylan as a Director
 Resolution 10:                                                                  658,988,380  99.13  5,777,752    664,766,132               126,344,021

 To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make
 political donations and to incur political expenditure
 Resolution 11:                                                                  788,490,848  99.72  2,179,333    790,670,181               434,828

 To authorise the Directors to issue further shares
 Resolution 12 (Special):                                                        661,776,940  83.72  128,699,341  790,476,281               633,872

 To disapply share pre-emption rights
 Resolution 13 (Special):                                                        789,429,893  99.87  1,063,484    790,493,377               616,776

 To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 5% of its issued ordinary
 shares
 Resolution 14:                                                                  662,668,982  83.82  127,881,009  790,549,991               560,162

 To authorise the Directors to allot shares in relation to the issuance of
 Convertible Bonds
 Resolution 15 (Special):                                                        658,000,906  83.25  132,413,057  790,413,963               696,190

 To disapply pre-emption rights in respect of allotments of equity securities
 in relation to the issuance of Convertible Bonds
 Resolution 16 (Special):                                                        769,020,492  97.25  21,739,294   790,759,786               345,026

 To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 clear days' notice

 

 

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 13(61)/(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
(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
(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 (http://www.aberdeenplc.com)

 

 

29 April 2026

 

 

Enquiries:

 

 Group Secretariat

 Rose Edwards                    +44 (0) 7971 188 901

 Media

 Duncan Young                    +44 (0) 7920 868 865

 Institutional Equity Investors

 Duncan Heath                    +44 (0) 207 156 2495

 

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