Result of AGM

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Standard Life Aberdeen plc

18 May 2021

 

Standard Life Aberdeen plc

Results of Annual General Meeting  

The Board of Standard Life Aberdeen plc ('the Company') is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting held earlier today, Tuesday 18 May 2021, 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 2020	997,817,470	99.93	698,944	998,516,414	2,241,099
Resolution 2: To declare a final dividend for 2020	994,427,853	99.40	6,044,650	1,000,472,503	285,010
Resolution 3: To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditors	989,760,771	98.86	11,408,649	1,001,169,420	1,071,797
Resolution 4: To authorise the audit committee to set the auditors' fees	998,930,655	99.78	2,185,967	1,001,116,622	1,124,595
Resolution 5: To approve the Directors' remuneration report, excluding the remuneration policy	969,169,906	96.90	30,957,556	1,000,127,462	2,113,755
Resolution 6A: To re-elect Sir Douglas Flint as a Director	983,666,088	98.27	17,332,867	1,000,998,955	1,242,262
Resolution 6B: To re-elect Jonathan Asquith as a Director	990,435,569	98.96	10,363,499	1,000,799,068	1,442,149
Resolution 6C: To re-elect Stephanie Bruce as a Director	995,935,046	99.52	4,846,511	1,000,781,557	1,459,660
Resolution 6D: To re-elect John Devine as a Director	994,526,352	99.37	6,287,142	1,000,813,494	1,427,723
Resolution 6E: To re-elect Melanie Gee as a Director	993,252,576	99.39	6,112,054	999,364,630	1,392,883
Resolution 6F: To re-elect Brian McBride as a Director	993,970,169	99.48	5,197,247	999,167,416	1,590,097
Resolution 6G: To re-elect Martin Pike as a Director	992,963,288	99.36	6,364,974	999,328,262	1,429,251
Resolution 6H: To re-elect Cathleen Raffaeli as a Director	994,475,203	99.51	4,856,475	999,331,678	1,425,835
Resolution 6I: To re-elect Cecilia Reyes as a Director	994,613,594	99.53	4,733,073	999,346,667	1,410,846
Resolution 6J: To re-elect Jutta af Rosenborg as a Director	944,409,033	94.51	54,831,426	999,240,459	1,517,054
Resolution 7: To elect Stephen Bird as a Director	995,589,976	99.63	3,728,883	999,318,859	1,438,654
Resolution 8: To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	975,434,897	97.70	22,964,163	998,399,060	2,358,453
Resolution 9: To authorise the Directors to issue further shares	980,292,463	98.08	19,229,107	999,521,570	1,235,943
Resolution 10 (Special): To disapply share pre-emption rights	988,540,207	99.04	9,611,199	998,151,406	2,606,107
Resolution 11 (Special): To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares	983,273,529	98.65	13,467,929	996,741,458	4,015,605
Resolution 12: To authorise the Directors to allot shares in relation to the issuance of Convertible Bonds	978,162,413	97.96	20,368,615	998,531,028	2,228,606
Resolution 13 (Special): To disapply pre-emption rights in respect of allotments of equity securities in relation to the issuance of Convertible Bonds	971,998,450	97.40	25,954,320	997,952,770	2,806,864
Resolution 14 (Special): To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days' notice	943,558,265	94.36	56,401,479	999,959,744	799,890
Resolution 15 (Special): To adopt new articles of association	994,782,590	99.67	3,272,125	998,054,715	2,704,469

The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on Monday 17 May 2021 was 2,180,723,546 ordinary shares of 13⁶¹/₆₃  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 National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will also be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

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

18 May 2021

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