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Phoenix Group Holdings
Results of Annual General Meeting
11 May 2016
Phoenix Group Holdings (the "Company") announces that at the Annual General Meeting convened and held on 11 May 2016 at 1st Floor, 32 Commercial Street, St Helier, Jersey, all the proposed resolutions, as detailed within the notice of meeting, were passed by a vote on a show of hands.
Proxy votes received were as follows. Please note that percentage figures are shown to 2 decimal places:
Annual General Meeting
Description of Resolution | Votes for | Votes against | Discretion | Votes withheld* |
1. To receive the annual report and accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2015 | 147,280,145 (99.99%) | 1,827 (0.00%) | 18,169 (0.01%) | 63,894
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2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2015 | 136,362,734 (98.98%) | 1,395,487 (1.01%) | 16,169 (0.01%) | 9,589,645
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3. To authorise the Directors to allot Equity Securities | 146,372,633 (99.33%) | 970,537 (0.66%) | 16,169 (0.01%) | 4,500
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4. To authorise the limited disapplication of pre-emption rights | 121,998,507 (91.57%) | 11,217,858 (8.42%) | 16,169 (0.01%) | 14,131,502
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5. To authorise the Company to purchase its own Ordinary Shares | 146,812,265 (99.68%) | 461,632 (0.31%) | 16,149 (0.01%) | 73,989 |
6. To re-elect Rene-Pierre Azria as a director | 147,327,461 (99.98%) | 16,141 (0.01%) | 16,587 (0.01%) | 3,847 |
7. To re-elect Clive Bannister as a director | 147,342,889 (99.99%) | 3,524 (0.00%) | 16,169 (0.01%) | 1,454 |
8. To re-elect Alastair Barbour as a director | 139,489,201 (95.04%) | 7,266,333 (4.95%) | 16,169 (0.01%) | 592,332 |
9. To re-elect Ian Cormack as a director | 145,784,281 (98.93%) | 1,560,007 (1.06%) | 16,169 (0.01%) | 3,578 |
10. To re-elect Isabel Hudson as a director | 147,338,434 (99.99%) | 5,009 (0.00%) | 16,587 (0.01%) | 3,606 |
11. To re-elect James McConville as a director | 147,339,091 (99.99%) | 5,273 (0.00%) | 16,587 (0.01%) | 2,685 |
12. To re-elect Kory Sorenson as a director | 146,837,846 (99.65%) | 506,043 (0.34%) | 16,169 (0.01%) | 3,578 |
13. To re-elect David Woods as a director | 147,327,615 (99.98%) | 17,167 (0.01%) | 16,169 (0.01%) | 2,685 |
14. To elect Henry Staunton as a director | 146,769,312 (99.74%) | 367,266 (0.25%) | 19,251 (0.01%) | 207,806 |
15. To declare and approve a final dividend of 26.7 pence per Ordinary Share for the year ended 31 December 2015 | 147,346,029 (99.99%) | 1,438 (0.00%) | 16,169 (0.01%) | 0 |
16. To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's Auditor | 146,806,204 (99.98%) | 17,262 (0.01%) | 16,169 (0.01%) | 524,000 |
17. To authorise the Directors to determine the amount of the Auditor's Remuneration | 147,266,985 (99.93%) | 80,482 (0.05%) | 16,169 (0.02%) | 0 |
* A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against the resolution.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.
Enquiries:
Investors / analysts | |
Sam Perowne Head of Investor Relations, Phoenix Group | +44 (0)20 3735 0021 |
Media |
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Neil Bennett, MaitlandTom Eckersley, Maitland | +44 (0)20 7379 5151 |