Result of AGM

RNS Number : 7768G

Standard Life plc

17 May 2011

 



Standard Life plc

Results of Annual General Meeting

The Board of Standard Life plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting earlier today, 17 May 2011, were duly passed.  The results of the polls were as follows:

	For	% For	Against	Total Votes Validly Cast	% of Issued Share Capital Voted	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1: To receive and consider the Annual Report and Accounts for 2010	738,820,643	99.72	2,099,676	740,920,319	32.45	3,794,029
Resolution 2: To approve the Directors' remuneration report	583,889,312	88.47	76,129,611	660,018,923	28.91	84,695,425
Resolution 3: To declare a final dividend for 2010	740,381,069	99.95	371,489	740,752,558	32.44	3,961,790
Resolution 4: To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors	735,350,876	99.31	5,094,868	740,445,744	32.43	4,267,974
Resolution 5: To authorise the Directors to set the auditors' fees	736,960,841	99.62	2,818,459	739,779,300	32.40	4,935,048
Resolution 6A: To re-elect Gerald Grimstone as a Director	731,247,616	98.90	8,158,695	739,406,311	32.38	5,308,037
Resolution 6B: To re-elect Kent Atkinson as a Director	733,461,606	99.23	5,713,823	739,175,429	32.37	5,537,428
Resolution 6C: To re-elect Lord Blackwell as a Director	729,664,143	98.72	9,443,699	739,107,842	32.37	5,606,506
Resolution 6D: To re-elect Colin Buchan as a Director	731,655,979	98.99	7,463,217	739,119,196	32.37	5,595,152
Resolution 6E: To re-elect Crawford Gillies as a Director	720,380,734	99.10	6,526,709	726,907,443	31.84	17,806,905
Resolution 6F: To re-elect David Grigson as a Director	733,779,563	99.28	5,328,801	739,108,364	32.37	5,604,449
Resolution 6G: To re-elect Baroness McDonagh as a Director	731,346,591	98.94	7,853,476	739,200,067	32.38	5,513,215
Resolution 6H: To re-elect David Nish as a Director	704,449,708	95.29	34,848,044	739,297,752	32.38	5,416,596
Resolution 6I: To re-elect Keith Skeoch as a Director	733,833,034	99.27	5,374,201	739,207,235	32.38	5,507,113
Resolution 6J: To re-elect Sheelagh Whittaker as a Director	732,533,011	99.09	6,726,739	739,259,750	32.38	5,454,598
Resolution 7: To elect Jacqueline Hunt as a Director	732,962,534	99.22	5,748,735	738,711,269	32.35	6,003,079
Resolution 8: To authorise the Directors to issue further shares	726,350,498	98.16	13,616,241	739,966,739	32.41	4,747,609
Resolution 9 (Special): To disapply share pre-emption rights	728,573,615	98.77	9,099,277	737,672,892	32.31	7,033,690
Resolution 10 (Special): To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares	733,722,600	99.14	6,378,003	740,100,603	32.42	4,611,481
Resolution 11: To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	672,949,659	91.52	62,367,714	735,317,373	32.21	9,396,975
Resolution 12 (Special): To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days' notice	680,911,129	91.97	59,468,335	740,379,464	32.43	4,334,884
Resolution 13 (Special): To adopt new articles of association	734,363,894	99.48	3,867,683	738,231,577	32.33	6,482,771
Resolution 14: To approve the Standard Life Sharesave Plan	732,572,849	99.11	6,547,608	739,120,457	32.37	5,591,215

The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on Monday 16 May was 2,283,180,107 ordinary shares of 10 pence each.

Votes withheld are not a vote in law and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution, the total votes validly cast or the calculation of the proportion of issued share capital voted.

Copies of all resolutions are available for inspection in the AGM Guide previously submitted to the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, via the National Storage Mechanism (www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do).

The AGM Guide and the voting results are also available on the Standard Life plc website at www.standardlife.com

17 May 2011

Enquiries:

Kenneth Gilmour, Group Secretariat 0131 245 0751

Duncan Heath, Investor Relations 0131 245 4742

Barry Cameron, Media Relations 0131 245 6165

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