Result of AGM

Brooks Macdonald Group PLC

26 October 2023

 

BROOKS MACDONALD GROUP PLC

(the "Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

The Company's 2023 AGM was held today at 21 Lombard Street, London. The Board is pleased to announce that all resolutions proposed at the meeting were passed on a poll.  The table below shows the total votes validly cast, being those votes for or against each resolution. 

Total votes cast, including votes withheld, were 13,860,200 Ordinary Shares, representing 84.31% of the Ordinary Shares in issue on 26 October 2023.

		For (see note 1)		Against (see note 1)		Votes withheld (see note 2)
		Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes
1	Receipt of the Annual Report and Accounts	13,227,698	99.98	2,133	0.02	630,369
2	Declaration of a final dividend	13,228,451	99.99	1,533	0.01	630,216
3	Approval of the Directors' remuneration report	12,954,381	97.92	275,603	2.08	630,216
4	Re-election of Richard Price as a Director	13,221,163	99.93	8,668	0.07	630,369
5	Re-election of Andrew Shepherd as a Director	13,225,767	99.97	4,064	0.03	630,369
6	Election of Andrea Montague as a Director	13,225,767	99.97	4,064	0.03	630,369
7	Re-election of John Linwood as a Director	12,983,663	98.14	246,168	1.86	630,369
8	Re-election of Dagmar Kershaw as a Director	13,225,767	99.97	4,064	0.03	630,369
9	Re-election of Robert Burgess as a Director	13,225,767	99.97	4,064	0.03	630,369
10	Election of James Rawlingson as a Director	13,225,767	99.97	4,064	0.03	630,369
11	Re-appointment and remuneration of the Auditor	13,173,577	99.57	56,407	0.43	630,216
12	Authority to make political donations	8,921,369	83.76	1,729,828	16.24	3,209,003
13	Authority to allot new shares	12,948,193	97.87	281,638	2.13	630,369
14	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	12,945,877	97.87	281,654	2.13	632,669
15	Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights	12,945,877	97.87	281,654	2.13	632,669
16	Authority to purchase own shares	10,647,033	99.96	4,164	0.04	3,209,003
17	New Articles of Association	12,986,107	98.17	241,414	1.83	632,679

Notes

1.    Votes "For" and "Against" are expressed as a percentage of votes received. Any proxy appointments which gave the Chairman discretion have been included in the "For" total.

2.    A "Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "For" or "Against" a resolution.

3.    Resolutions 1 to 13 were ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 17 were special resolution.

4.    The full text of each resolution was included in the Company's Notice of Annual General Meeting sent to shareholders and made available on the Company's website https://www.brooksmacdonald.com/investor-relations/results.

5.    The number of ordinary shares in issue as at 26 October 2023 was 16,439,717.

Enquiries:

Brooks Macdonald Group plc	www.brooksmacdonald.com
Andrew Shepherd, CEO	[phone]
Andrea Montague, CFO
Peel Hunt LLP
Paul Shackleton / Andrew Buchanan / John Welch	[phone]
FTI Consulting	[e-mail]
Edward Berry / Katherine Bell	[phone] / [phone]

Notes to editors

Brooks Macdonald Group plc, through its various subsidiaries, provides leading wealth management services in the UK and internationally. The Group, which was founded in 1991 and began trading on AIM in 2005, had discretionary Funds under Management of £16.9 billion as at 30 September 2023.

Brooks Macdonald offers a range of investment management services to private high net worth individuals, pension funds, institutions, charities and trusts. The Group also provides financial planning as well as international investment management and acts as fund manager to a range of onshore and international funds.

The Group has fifteen offices across the UK and Crown Dependencies including London, Birmingham, Cheltenham, East Anglia, Exeter, Leeds, Manchester, Nuneaton, Southampton, Tunbridge Wells, Scotland, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man.

LEI: 213800WRDF8LB8MIEX37

www.brooksmacdonald.com / @BrooksMacdonald

 

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