24 Feb 2020 15:20
STANDARD LIFE PRIVATE EQUITY TRUST PLC
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 2138004MK7VPTZ99EV13
24 February 2020
Result of Annual General Meeting
Standard Life Private Equity Trust plc (the "Company") hereby gives notification that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, Monday, 24 February 2020, all the Resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting included within the Annual Report and available on the Company's website, www.slpet.co.uk* were duly passed on a show of hands.
The total number of proxy votes lodged for the Annual General Meeting were as follows:
For and Discretionary | Against | Votes | Total Votes | |||
Resolution Number | No. of Votes | % of Votes Cast | No. of Votes | % of Votes Cast | Withheld | (excluding Votes Withheld) |
1. Receive Report & Accounts | 109,513,810 | 100.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 109,513,810 |
2. Approve Directors' Remuneration Report | 109,466,644 | 99.98 | 17,889 | 0.02 | 29,277 | 109,484,533 |
3. Approve Directors' Remuneration Policy | 109,461,224 | 99.98 | 21,799 | 0.02 | 30,787 | 109,483,023 |
4. Approve Company's Dividend Policy | 109,510,339 | 100.00 | 3,471 | 0.00 | 0 | 109,513,810 |
5. Re-elect Mr Bond | 109,484,994 | 100.00 | 1,154 | 0.00 | 27,662 | 109,486,148 |
6. Re-elect Mr Devine | 109,489,431 | 100.00 | 989 | 0.00 | 23,390 | 109,490,420 |
7. Re-elect Ms McComb | 109,489,360 | 100.00 | 1,060 | 0.00 | 23,390 | 109,490,420 |
8. Re-elect Ms Seymour-Williams | 109,489,360 | 100.00 | 1,060 | 0.00 | 23,390 | 109,490,420 |
9. Re-elect Mr Thomson | 109,489,501 | 100.00 | 885 | 0.00 | 23,424 | 109,490,386 |
10. Re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor | 109,480,561 | 99.98 | 23,103 | 0.02 | 10,146 | 109,503,664 |
11. Remuneration of the Auditor | 109,498,543 | 99.99 | 12,866 | 0.01 | 2,401 | 109,511,409 |
12. Allotment of new equity | 109,476,457 | 99.98 | 19,686 | 0.02 | 17,667 | 109,496,143 |
13. Disapply pre-emption rights | 107,099,172 | 97.82 | 2,390,883 | 2.18 | 23,754 | 109,490,055 |
14. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares | 107,123,764 | 97.83 | 2,374,779 | 2.17 | 15,266 | 109,498,543 |
A copy of the AGM resolutions which require to be lodged with the UKLA have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism (NSM) and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM*
*Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.
For Standard Life Private Equity Trust plc
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC
Company Secretary
24 February 2020
Tel: 0131 372 2200