Result of AGM

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abrdn PLC

18 May 2022

 

abrdn plc

Results of Annual General Meeting

The Board of abrdn plc ('the Company') is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting held earlier today, Wednesday 18 May 2022, 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 2021	1,036,764,601	99.03	10,199,242	1,046,963,843	10,446,606
Resolution 2: To declare a final dividend for 2021	1,040,230,069	98.41	16,832,845	1,057,062,914	347,535
Resolution 3: To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditors	1,036,692,688	98.16	19,435,555	1,056,128,243	1,282,206
Resolution 4: To authorise the audit committee to set the auditors' fees	1,044,968,402	98.93	11,253,638	1,056,222,040	1,188,409
Resolution 5: To approve the Directors' remuneration report	1,009,839,204	96.23	39,512,722	1,049,351,926	8,058,523
Resolution 6A: To re-elect Sir Douglas Flint CBE as a Director	1,016,087,065	96.91	32,372,391	1,048,459,456	8,950,993
Resolution 6B: To re-elect Jonathan Asquith as a Director	1,012,399,530	96.86	32,816,563	1,045,216,093	12,193,761
Resolution 6C: To re-elect Stephen Bird as a Director	1,039,954,796	98.53	15,531,199	1,055,485,995	1,924,454
Resolution 6D: To re-elect Stephanie Bruce as a Director	1,039,597,827	98.49	15,911,756	1,055,509,583	1,896,434
Resolution 6E: To re-elect John Devine as a Director	1,025,920,748	97.21	29,468,630	1,055,389,378	2,004,804
Resolution 6F: To re-elect Brian McBride as a Director	881,815,001	83.55	173,590,503	1,055,405,504	1,995,158
Resolution 6G: To re-elect Cathleen Raffaeli as a Director	1,038,716,710	98.41	16,793,483	1,055,510,193	1,897,913
Resolution 6H: To re-elect Cecilia Reyes as a Director	1,038,627,939	98.40	16,895,229	1,055,523,168	1,887,263
Resolution 7A: To elect Catherine Bradley CBE as a Director	889,145,502	84.25	166,215,240	1,055,360,742	2,024,740
Resolution 7B: To elect Hannah Grove as a Director	1,049,255,061	99.43	6,014,095	1,055,269,156	2,138,932
Resolution 7C: To elect Pam Kaur as a Director, with effect from 1 June 2022	1,035,603,009	98.14	19,624,226	1,055,227,235	2,180,871
Resolution 7D: To elect Michael O'Brien as a Director, with effect from 1 June 2022	1,040,218,373	98.58	15,000,414	1,055,218,787	2,190,070
Resolution 8: To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	1,029,566,404	97.59	25,432,251	1,054,998,655	2,411,199
Resolution 9: To authorise the Directors to issue further shares	854,012,310	80.88	201,920,042	1,055,932,352	1,478,097
Resolution 10 (Special): To disapply share pre-emption rights	870,176,413	83.00	178,267,190	1,048,443,603	8,966,672
Resolution 11 (Special): To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares	1,035,051,451	98.03	20,782,942	1,055,834,393	1,573,713
Resolution 12: To authorise the Directors to allot shares in relation to the issuance of Convertible Bonds	867,715,396	82.73	181,170,324	1,048,885,720	8,524,134
Resolution 13 (Special): To disapply pre-emption rights in respect of allotments of equity securities in relation to the issuance of Convertible Bonds	859,330,096	81.99	188,796,669	1,048,126,765	9,283,089
Resolution 14 (Special): To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days' notice	995,983,935	94.29	60,328,733	1,056,312,668	1,097,353
Resolution 15 (Special): To cancel the capital redemption reserve	1,041,964,619	98.83	12,299,127	1,054,263,746	3,145,111

Other matters

As previously announced, we confirm that Martin Pike and Jutta af Rosenborg did not seek re-election, and retired from the Board at the conclusion of the meeting.

John Devine has been appointed Chair of the Risk & Capital Committee and Catherine Bradley has been appointed Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Nomination & Governance Committee with effect from 18 May 2022.

We also confirm that Resolution 15, relating to the cancellation of the Company's capital redemption reserve (the "Cancellation"), was passed as a special resolution.  As explained in the AGM Guide, the Cancellation, which was proposed as a matter of balance sheet management and in order to create distributable reserves, remains subject to the confirmation of the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on Tuesday 17 May 2022 was 2,180,725,768 ordinary shares of 13⁶¹/₆₃pence 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 abrdn plc website at www.abrdn.com

18 May 2022

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