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BROOKS MACDONALD GROUP PLC
(the "Company")
Result of Annual General Meeting ('AGM')
The Company's 2020 AGM was held today as a closed meeting at 21 Lombard Street, London. The Board is pleased to announce that all resolutions proposed at the meeting were passed on a poll. The table below shows the total votes validly cast, being those votes for or against each resolution. Total votes cast, including votes withheld, were over 13,603,392 Ordinary Shares, representing 84.32% of the Ordinary Shares in issue on 23 October 2020.
For (see note 1) | Against (see note 1) | Votes withheld (see note 2) | ||||
Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | ||
1 | Receipt of the Annual Report and Accounts | 13,531,002 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 72,390 |
2 | Declaration of a final dividend | 13,531,002 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 72,390 |
3 | Approval of the Directors' remuneration report | 12,525,574 | 92.81 | 970,845 | 7.19 | 106,973 |
4 | Re-election of Alan Carruthers as a Director | 13,531,002 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 72,390 |
5 | Re-election of Caroline Connellan as a Director | 13,530,814 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 72,578 |
6 | Re-election of Ben Thorpe as a Director | 13,531,002 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 72,390 |
7 | Re-election of Richard Price as a Director | 13,531,002 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 72,390 |
8 | Re-election of John Linwood as a Director | 13,191,133 | 97.49 | 339,869 | 2.51 | 72,390 |
9 | Election of Dagmar Kershaw as a Director | 13,531,002 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 72,390 |
10 | Election of Robert Burgess as a Director | 13,531,002 | 100 | 0 | 0.00 | 72,390 |
11 | Re-appointment and remuneration of the Auditor | 13,530,882 | 99.99 | 120 | 0.01 | 72,390 |
12 | Political donations | 10,784,890 | 93.22 | 783,967 | 6.78 | 2,034,535 |
13 | Authority to allot new shares | 13,085,883 | 96.71 | 445,119 | 3.29 | 72,390 |
14 | Authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 12,915,332 | 95.45 | 615,670 | 4.55 | 72,390 |
15 | Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 12,761,663 | 94.31 | 769,339 | 5.69 | 72,390 |
16 | Authority to purchase own shares | 11,568,490 | 99.99 | 367 | 0.01 | 2,034,535 |
17 | Notice periods for general meetings (other than AGM) | 13,530,882 | 99.99 | 120 | 0.01 | 72,390 |
Notes
1. Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes received. Any proxy appointments which gave the Chairman discretion have been included in the "For" total.
2. A "Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.
3. Resolutions 1 to 13 were ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 17 were special resolutions.
4. The number of ordinary shares in issue as at 23 October 2020 was 16,132,936.
Enquiries to:
Brooks Macdonald Group PLC | |
Caroline Connellan, CEO | +44 (0)20 7659 3492 |
Ben Thorpe, Group Finance Director | +44 (0)20 7659 3492 |
Peel Hunt LLP | |
Adrian Trimmings / Rishi Shah / John Welch | +44 (0)20 7418 8900 |
MHP Communications | |
Reg Hoare / Simon Hockridge / Charlie Barker | +44 (0)20 3128 8540
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Notes to editors
Brooks Macdonald Group plc, through its various subsidiaries, provides leading investment management services in the UK and internationally. The Group, which was founded in 1991 and began trading on AIM in 2005, had discretionary Funds under Management of £13.7 billion as at 30 September 2020.
Brooks Macdonald offers a range of investment management services to private high net worth individuals, pension funds, institutions, charities and trusts. The Group also provides financial planning as well as offshore investment management and acts as fund manager to two regulated OEICs (the IFSL Brooks Macdonald Fund and the SVS Cornelian Investment Funds) providing a range of risk-managed multi-asset funds and a specialised absolute return fund.
The Group has twelve offices across the UK and the Channel Islands including London, East Anglia, Hampshire, Leamington Spa, Leeds, Manchester, Taunton, Tunbridge Wells, Scotland, Wales, Jersey and Guernsey.
LEI: 213800WRDF8LB8MIEX37