Alliance Trust PLC - Result of AGM

Alliance Trust PLC

Annual General Meeting

Alliance Trust PLC announces the results of voting on the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting, held earlier today in Dundee. Due to the restrictions on travel and attendance at meetings the Annual General Meeting was not open to shareholders other than those required to form the quorum and all votes were on a poll.

As previously announced, Resolution 12 was withdrawn and was not voted on.

A summary of the votes cast in respect of the resolutions is set out below. Each of the resolutions was passed with the required majority.

	Resolution	Votes for	%	Votes against	%	Percentage of issued share capital voted	Votes withheld
1	Report & Accounts	91,872,016	99.93	64,961	0.07	27.94%	52,122
2	Directors’ remuneration report (excluding Remuneration Policy)	89,842,353	98.33	1,524,987	1.67	27.77%	623,662
3	To approve the Dividend Policy	90,832,884	99.19	743,775	0.81	27.83%	414,303
4	Re-election of Gregor Stewart	91,361,184	99.68	293,325	0.32	27.85%	334,430
5	Re-election of Mr Anthony Brooke	91,020,848	99.35	598,190	0.65	27.84%	375,630
6	Re-election of Mrs Clare Dobie	90,743,052	99.05	870,869	0.95	27.84%	363,962
7	Re-election of Mr Christopher Samuel	89,133,723	97.25	2,516,074	2.75	27.85%	342,201
8	Re-election of Mr Karl Sternberg	85,394,605	93.31	6,127,090	6.69	27.81%	472,768
9	Election of Ms Jo Dixon	88,747,285	96.92	2,818,379	3.08	27.83%	412,218
10	Appointment of BDO as Auditor	91,377,420	99.58	382,837	0.42	27.89%	233,564
11	Remuneration of the Auditor	91,662,026	99.82	164,077	0.18	27.91%	168,565
12	To approve the conversion of the Merger Reserve (withdrawn)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
13	To approve Articles of Association	91,268,983	99.69	284,194	0.31	27.82%	414,471
14	Authority to purchase Company shares	90,051,319	98.05	1,792,848	1.95	27.91%	142,824
15	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	89,409,069	97.64	2,161,411	2.36	27.83%	424,188
16	Authority to hold meetings at 14 days’ notice	88,495,129	96.33	3,373,055	3.67	27.92%	126,484

The number of shares in issue as at the date of the meeting was 329,065,733

NOTES
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of resolutions 13, 14, 15 and 16, which were special resolutions, passed by the Company at its Annual General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

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