25 Jan 2018 14:48
Standard Life Private Equity Trust PLC
To: RNS
From: Standard Life Private Equity Trust PLC
Date: 25 January 2018
RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Board is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held on 25 January 2018, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting put to the AGM were passed by the requisite majority on a show of hands.
The Board is pleased to announce the following proxy results of the resolutions put forward at the AGM.
Ordinary Resolutions | Votes For (inc. discretionary) | Votes Against | Votes Withheld | Total Votes | |
1. | That the audited Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 September 2017 be received. | 104,669,180 | 0 | 750 | 104,669,930 |
2. | That the Directors' remuneration report for the year ended 30 September 2017 be approved. | 104,657,408 | 5,147 | 7,375 | 104,669,930 |
3. | That a final dividend of 6.0 pence per ordinary share be approved. | 104,669,180 | 0 | 750 | 104,669,930 |
4. | That Mr Devine be re-elected as a Director. | 104,664,908 | 4,272 | 750 | 104,669,930 |
5. | That Ms McComb be re-elected as a Director. | 104,669,180 | 0 | 750 | 104,669,930 |
6. | That Mr Warner be re-elected as a Director. | 104,655,406 | 7,523 | 7,000 | 104,669,929 |
7. | That Ms Seymour-Williams be elected as a Director. | 104,669,180 | 0 | 750 | 104,669,930 |
8. | That Mr Thomson be elected as a Director. | 104,666,967 | 235 | 2,728 | 104,669,930 |
9. | That KPMG LLP be re-appointed as Independent Auditor and that their remuneration be fixed by the Directors. | 104,666,902 | 2,653 | 375 | 104,669,930 |
10. | That the Directors be authorised to allot shares in the Company up to an aggregate nominal amount of £102,395. | 104,625,723 | 3,156 | 41,051 | 104,669,930 |
Special Resolutions | |||||
11. | That the Directors be authorised to allot equity securities for cash in accordance with section 570 of the Companies Act 2006 (disapplication of pre-emption rights). | 104,069,798 | 5,945 | 594,187 | 104,669,930 |
12. | That the Company be authorised to buy-back shares of up to 14.99% of the Company's issued ordinary share capital. | 104,646,493 | 22,687 | 750 | 104,669,930 |
PASSING OF RESOLUTIONS AT THE AGM OF THE COMPANY
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 http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM1.
Maven Capital Partners UK LLP, Secretary
25 January 2018
1 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.