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POLAR CAPITAL GLOBAL FINANCIALS TRUST PLC
("the Company")
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300G5SWN8EP2P4U41
Results of the 12th Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held at 2.00 pm on Thursday 10th April 2025
Result of AGM
All the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company were voted on and passed on a poll. The resolutions proposed at the AGM can be found in the Notice of AGM which is available on the Company's website www.polarcapitalglobalfinancialstrust.com
The following table indicates the number of votes lodged at or in advance of the meeting for each of the resolutions. It should be noted that votes withheld do not constitute votes in law. The number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of the AGM was 331,750,000 and therefore the total voting rights is 303,219,365 shares, of which 51.9% of the voting rights were cast by proxy and Poll.
In accordance with Listing Rule 6.4.2, copies of resolutions 11 to 14, having been passed as special resolutions, will be submitted to Companies House, as well as the National Storage Mechanism, and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Resolution | In favour (including votes at the Chair's discretion) | Against | Withheld | |
No |
| Number of shares
| Number of shares | Number of shares |
1. | To receive the Annual Report and the Financial Statements for the year ended 30 November 2024
| 157,500,829 | 63,407 | 27,601 |
2. | To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Implementation Report
| 157,465,481 | 57,903 | 68,453 |
3. | To re-elect Simon Cordery as a Director
| 154,703,441 | 2,828,270 | 60,126 |
4. | To re-elect Cecilia McAnulty as a Director
| 156,421,102 | 1,110,609 | 60,126 |
5. | To elect Susie Arnott as a Director
| 156,414,710 | 1,117,001 | 60,126 |
6. | To elect Angela Henderson as a Director | 156,413,444 | 1,118,267 | 60,126 |
7. | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors
| 157,442,261 | 113,428 | 36,148 |
8. | To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration
| 157,537,562 | 21,882 | 32,393 |
9. | To approve the dividend policy
| 157,566,710 | 0 | 25,127 |
10. | To authorise the allotment of ordinary shares
| 157,543,452 | 19,023 | 29,362 |
11. | To disapply pre-emption rights
| 157,155,262 | 398,009 | 38,566 |
12. | To grant the Company the authority to buy back its own ordinary shares
| 155,874,137 | 1,700,979 | 16,667 |
13. | To approve the cancellation of the Company's share premium account
| 157,522,585 | 10,838 | 58,414 |
14. | To approve the Company to hold general meetings (other than the AGM) on at least 14 clear days' | 157,449,139 | 120,862 | 21,836 |
Enquiries:
Jumoke Kupoluyi, ACG
Polar Capital Global Financials Trust PLC
020 7227 2700
10 April 2025
END
Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.
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