Result of AGM

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IG Group Holdings plc

21 September 2017

 

IG Group Holdings plc
21 September 2017

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

The Board of IG Group Holdings plc (the "Company"), a global leader in online trading, is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, all the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were duly passed. A poll was conducted on each resolution proposed at the Meeting.  The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions and the number of votes withheld were as follows:

RESOLUTIONS		VOTES FOR	%	VOTES AGAINST	%	VOTES TOTAL	Votes cast as % of Issued Share Capital	VOTES WITHHELD*
1.	To receive the accounts for the year ended 31 May 2017 and accompanying reports	307,129,357	99.99	28,355	0.01	307,157,712	83.49%	22,592
2.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	299,577,514	97.53	7,597,984	2.47	307,175,498	83.50%	4,806
3.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy	289,325,839	96.46	10,631,334	3.54	299,957,173	81.53%	7,223,131
4.	To declare a final dividend of 22.88 pence per share	307,179,225	100.00	0	0.00	307,179,225	83.50%	1,079
5.	To re-elect Andy Green as a Director	306,075,385	99.65	1,088,294	0.35	307,163,679	83.49%	16,625
6.	To re-elect Peter Hetherington as a Director	306,596,489	99.81	580,439	0.19	307,176,928	83.50%	3,376
7.	To re-elect Paul Mainwaring as a Director	306,515,698	99.78	662,318	0.22	307,178,016	83.50%	2,288
8.	To re-elect June Felix as a Director	306,598,212	99.81	579,804	0.19	307,178,016	83.50%	2,288
9.	To re-elect Stephen Hill as a Director	306,460,984	99.77	717,032	0.23	307,178,016	83.50%	2,288
10.	To re-elect Malcolm Le May as a Director	303,504,293	98.80	3,673,723	1.20	307,178,016	83.50%	2,288
11.	To re-elect Jim Newman as a Director	299,410,094	99.73	809,930	0.27	300,220,024	81.61%	6,960,280
12.	To re-elect Sam Tymms as a Director	306,508,563	99.78	669,453	0.22	307,178,016	83.50%	2,288
13.	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company	298,603,781	97.21	8,574,423	2.79	307,178,204	83.50%	2,100
14.	To authorise the Audit Committee of the Board to determine the auditors' remuneration	305,520,106	99.46	1,657,258	0.54	307,177,364	83.50%	2,940
15.	To authorise the Directors to allot shares	297,562,123	96.87	9,614,383	3.13	307,176,506	83.50%	3,798
16.	To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares	304,363,212	100.00	10,745	0.00	304,373,957	82.74%	2,806,347
17.	To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares for the purposes of acquisitions or other capital investments	282,798,058	92.91	21,575,899	7.09	304,373,957	82.74%	2,806,347
18.	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares	299,478,946	97.55	7,508,715	2.45	306,987,661	83.45%	192,643
19.	That a general meeting (other than an AGM) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice	300,254,760	97.75	6,925,323	2.25	307,180,083	83.50%	221

*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes cast "For" or "Against" a resolution.

As at 6.00pm on Monday 19 September 2017, the time by which shareholders who wanted to attend, speak and vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, there were 367,889,455 ordinary shares in issue. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. 

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

For further information, please contact:

IG Group

Liz Scorer                                             020 7573 0026 / 0727

[e-mail] 

FTI Consulting

Neil Doyle / Ed Berry                     020 3727 1141 / 1046

About IG

IG empowers informed, decisive, adventurous people to access opportunities in over 15,000 financial markets. With a strong focus on innovation and technology, the company puts client needs at the heart of everything it does.

IG's vision is to be a global leader in retail trading and investments. Established in 1974 as the world's first financial spread betting firm, it continued leading the way by launching the world's first online and iPhone trading services.

IG is now an award-winning, multi-platform trading company, the world's No.1 provider of CFDs* and a global leader in forex. It provides leveraged services with the option of limited-risk guarantees, and offers an execution-only share dealing service in the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, Austria and the Netherlands. IG has recently launched a range of affordable, fully managed investment portfolios, to provide a comprehensive offering to investors and active traders.

It is a member of the FTSE 250, with offices across Europe, including a Swiss bank, Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and the US, where it offers on-exchange limited risk derivatives via the Nadex brand.

*Based on revenue excluding FX (from published financial statements, October 2016)

 

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