REG - Standard Life Aberdn - Result of AGM

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18/05/2021 16:25

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Standard Life Aberdeen plc
  
18 May 2021
  
 

Standard Life Aberdeen plc
Results of Annual General Meeting 
 
 
 
The Board of Standard Life Aberdeen plc ('the Company') is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting held earlier today, Tuesday 18 May 2021, 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 2020


997,817,470


99.93


698,944


998,516,414


2,241,099




Resolution 2:
To declare a final dividend for 2020


994,427,853


99.40


6,044,650


1,000,472,503


285,010




Resolution 3:
To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditors


989,760,771


98.86


11,408,649


1,001,169,420


1,071,797




Resolution 4:
To authorise the audit committee to set the auditors' fees


998,930,655


99.78


2,185,967


1,001,116,622


1,124,595




Resolution 5:
To approve the Directors' remuneration report, excluding the remuneration policy


969,169,906


96.90


30,957,556


1,000,127,462


2,113,755




Resolution 6A:
To re-elect Sir Douglas Flint as a Director


983,666,088


98.27


17,332,867


1,000,998,955


1,242,262




Resolution 6B:
To re-elect Jonathan Asquith as a Director


990,435,569


98.96


10,363,499


1,000,799,068


1,442,149




Resolution 6C: 
To re-elect Stephanie Bruce as a Director


995,935,046


99.52


4,846,511


1,000,781,557


1,459,660




Resolution 6D:
To re-elect John Devine as a Director


994,526,352


99.37


6,287,142


1,000,813,494


1,427,723




Resolution 6E: 
To re-elect Melanie Gee as a Director


993,252,576


99.39


6,112,054


999,364,630


1,392,883




Resolution 6F:
To re-elect Brian McBride as a Director


993,970,169


99.48


5,197,247


999,167,416


1,590,097




Resolution 6G:
To re-elect Martin Pike as a Director


992,963,288


99.36


6,364,974


999,328,262


1,429,251




Resolution 6H:
To re-elect Cathleen Raffaeli as a Director


994,475,203


99.51


4,856,475


999,331,678


1,425,835




Resolution 6I:
To re-elect Cecilia Reyes as a Director


994,613,594


99.53


4,733,073


999,346,667


1,410,846




Resolution 6J:
To re-elect Jutta af Rosenborg as a Director


944,409,033


94.51


54,831,426


999,240,459


1,517,054




Resolution 7:
To elect Stephen Bird as a Director


995,589,976


99.63


3,728,883


999,318,859


1,438,654




Resolution 8:
To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure


975,434,897


97.70


22,964,163


998,399,060


2,358,453




Resolution 9:
To authorise the Directors to issue further shares


980,292,463


98.08


19,229,107


999,521,570


1,235,943




Resolution 10 (Special):
To disapply share pre-emption rights


988,540,207


99.04


9,611,199


998,151,406


2,606,107




Resolution 11 (Special):
To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares


983,273,529


98.65


13,467,929


996,741,458


4,015,605




Resolution 12:
To authorise the Directors to allot shares in relation to the issuance of Convertible Bonds


978,162,413


97.96


20,368,615


998,531,028


2,228,606




Resolution 13 (Special):
To disapply pre-emption rights in respect of allotments of equity securities in relation to the issuance of Convertible Bonds


971,998,450


97.40


25,954,320


997,952,770


2,806,864




Resolution 14 (Special):
To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days' notice
 


943,558,265


94.36


56,401,479


999,959,744


799,890




Resolution 15 (Special):
To adopt new articles of association


 
994,782,590


 
99.67


 
3,272,125


 
998,054,715


 
2,704,469



 
The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on Monday 17 May 2021 was 2,180,723,546 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 AGM Guide previously submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
 
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, 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 AGM Guide and the voting results are also available on the Standard Life Aberdeen plc website at www.standardlifeaberdeen.com
 
18 May 2021
 
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