Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9677M

Standard Life plc

12 May 2015

 



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 held earlier today, Tuesday 12 May 2015, were duly passed.

The results of the polls were as follows:

	For	% For	Against	Total Votes Validly Cast	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1: To receive and consider the Annual Report and Accounts for 2014	883,733,889	99.92	698,447	884,432,336	1,943,352
Resolution 2: To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors	863,965,275	97.96	17,984,906	881,950,181	4,424,525
Resolution 3: To authorise the Directors to set the auditors' fees	873,231,686	98.98	8,990,369	882,222,055	4,153,600
Resolution 4: To declare a final dividend for 2014	884,535,279	99.97	306,213	884,841,492	1,503,481
Resolution 5: To approve the Directors' remuneration report	832,166,681	96.88	26,794,607	858,961,288	27,414,399
Resolution 6: To approve the Directors' remuneration policy	852,195,858	96.61	29,881,743	882,077,601	4,276,901
Resolution 7: To approve the amendments to the rules of the Standard Life plc Executive LTIP	852,073,710	96.57	30,231,176	882,304,886	4,070,801
Resolution 8A: To re-elect Sir Gerald Grimstone as a Director	878,896,138	99.47	4,660,132	883,556,270	2,814,788
Resolution 8B: To re-elect Pierre Danon as a Director	871,815,859	99.49	4,484,587	876,300,446	10,073,951
Resolution 8C: To re-elect Crawford Gillies as a Director	879,414,707	99.61	3,475,399	882,890,106	3,485,581
Resolution 8D: To re-elect Noel Harwerth as a Director	872,667,645	99.54	4,045,359	876,713,004	9,661,624
Resolution 8E: To re-elect David Nish as a Director	880,948,069	99.72	2,460,918	883,408,987	2,966,701
Resolution 8F: * To re-elect John Paynter as a Director	-	-	-	-	-
Resolution 8G: To re-elect Lynne Peacock as a Director	879,984,112	99.62	3,371,999	883,356,111	3,018,517
Resolution 8H: To re-elect Martin Pike as a Director	880,314,479	99.73	2,418,571	882,733,050	3,632,679
Resolution 8I: To re-elect Keith Skeoch as a Director	880,950,675	99.73	2,380,495	883,331,170	3,037,280
Resolution 9A: To elect Isabel Hudson as a Director	880,342,413	99.70	2,660,744	883,003,157	3,349,274
Resolution 9B: To elect Kevin Parry as a Director	880,196,771	99.70	2,689,034	882,885,805	3,467,717
Resolution 9C: To elect Luke Savage as a Director	880,507,612	99.73	2,415,749	882,923,361	3,451,346
Resolution 10: To authorise the Directors to issue further shares	875,069,973	99.02	8,669,240	883,739,213	2,606,923
Resolution 11 (Special): To disapply share pre-emption rights	875,743,525	99.27	6,457,020	882,200,545	4,152,977
Resolution 12 (Special): To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares	879,116,332	99.46	4,755,114	883,871,446	2,503,261
Resolution 13: To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	837,838,944	95.00	44,065,018	881,903,962	4,470,745
Resolution 14 (Special): To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days' notice	817,445,241	92.46	66,615,752	884,060,993	2,313,714
Resolution 15 (Special): To adopt new Articles of Association	879,703,962	99.66	2,958,269	882,662,231	3,690,669

*              As John Paynter resigned from the Company on 28 April 2015, this resolution was not proposed at the Annual General Meeting

As previously announced, we confirm that David Grigson did not seek re-election, and resigned from the Board at the conclusion of the meeting.

The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on Friday 8 May 2015 was 1,969,186,146 ordinary shares of 12²/₉ 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 at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will then be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm

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

12 May 2015

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