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. 

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	86,507,073	99.21	686,977	0.79	26.32	331,145
2	Directors’ remuneration report (excluding Remuneration Policy)	84,272,718	97.67	2,013,189	2.33	26.05	1,227,970
3	To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Policy	84,114,726	97.49	2,163,748	2.51	26.05	1,270,000
4	To approve a new limit for the Directors’ ordinary remuneration.	82,920,427	95.53	3,876,796	4.47	26.21	699,657
5	Re-election of Lord Smith of Kelvin	78,064,424	89.75	8,920,181	10.25	26.26	543,750
6	Re-election of  Mr Anthony Brooke	85,532,791	98.59	1,219,384	1.41	26.19	786,454
7	Re-election of  Mrs Clare Dobie	85,727,593	98.73	1,101,474	1.27	26.21	706,562
8	Re-election of  Mr Christopher Samuel	85,399,305	98.45	1,341,282	1.55	26.19	796,368
9	Re-election of  Mr Karl Sternberg	83,144,920	96.52	2,996,042	3.48	26.01	1,398,993
10	Re-election of Gregor Stewart	85,787,248	98.82	1,026,977	1.18	26.21	734,573
11	Re-appointment of Deloitte LLP as Auditor	85,510,677	98.40	1,389,222	1.60	26.24	642,964
12	Remuneration of the Auditor	86,310,355	99.15	739,866	0.85	26.28	485,231
13	To approve Investment Objective and Policy	76,367,843	98.90	848,834	1.10	23.31	10,177,236
14	Authority to purchase Company shares	84,938,606	97.60	2,091,072	2.40	26.28	392,953
15	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	83,522,042	96.44	3,082,742	3.56	26.15	930,751
16	Authority to hold meetings at 14 days notice	83,325,540	95.70	3,739,857	4.30	26.29	371,988

NOTES
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of resolutions 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 http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

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