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abrdn plc ("abrdn")

Results of General Meeting

 

abrdn shareholders vote in favour of the acquisition of interactive investor
(the "Acquisition").

 

The Board of abrdn is pleased to announce that the resolution put to its
General Meeting held earlier today, Tuesday 15 March 2022, was duly passed.

 

Sir Douglas Flint, Chairman of abrdn, commented:

"We are delighted with the strong support shown by shareholders today in
approving our acquisition of interactive investor.  The deal transforms our
personal vector, adding interactive investor's distinctive subscription based
business model and incremental growth to an already successful and fast
growing segment.  We expect the transaction to complete before the mid-year,
subject to completion of regulatory approval."

 

The results of the poll were as follows:

 

                                                                                  For          % For  Against      Total Votes Validly Cast  Votes Withheld

 Resolution 1:                                                                    846,853,830  80.82  200,980,425  1,047,834,255             2,603,526

 To approve the Acquisition (as described in the Circular and Notice of General
 Meeting)

 

 

The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on 11 March 2022 was 2,180,725,341
ordinary shares of 13(61)/(63) pence each.

 

Votes withheld are not a vote in law and have not been counted in the total
votes validly cast, or the calculation of the percentage of votes cast For the
resolution.

 

A copy of the resolution is available for inspection in the Circular
previously submitted to the FCA's National Storage Mechanism on its website at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism)

 

The Circular and the voting results are also available on the abrdn plc
website at https://www.abrdn.com/corporate/investors/acquisition-of-ii
(https://www.abrdn.com/corporate/investors/acquisition-of-ii)

 

abrdn Shareholders may request a hard copy of this announcement by: (i)
contacting abrdn Shareholder Services during business hours on +44 (0)371 384
2464 or +44 (0)371 384 2493 (Germany/Austria) or (ii) by submitting a request
in writing to abrdn Shareholder Services, Aspect House, Spencer Road, Lancing,
West Sussex, BN99 6DA.

 

15 March 2022

 

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