Result of AGM

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IG Group Holdings plc
19 September 2019
 

 

IG Group Holdings plc

LEI No: 2138003A5Q1M7ANOUD76
19 September 2019

 

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

Results of 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

% of Issued Share Capital Voted

VOTES
WITHHELD*

1

To receive the accounts for the year ended 31 May 2019 and accompanying reports

303,885,061

100.00

0

0.00

303,885,061

82.26%

226,262

2

To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report

252,044,345

86.34

39,872,908

13.66

291,917,253

79.02%

12,194,069

3

To declare a final dividend of 30.24 pence per share

304,109,223

100.00

0

0.00

304,109,223

82.32%

2,100

4

To re-elect June Felix as a Director

292,163,080

96.08

11,935,184

3.92

304,098,264

82.31%

13,059

5

To re-elect Stephen Hill as a Director

266,378,119

87.59

37,725,837

12.41

304,103,956

82.31%

7,367

6

To re-elect Malcolm Le May as a Director

255,805,280

84.14

48,225,995

15.86

304,031,275

82.30%

80,047

7

To re-elect Paul Mainwaring as a Director

302,250,885

99.39

1,853,071

0.61

304,103,956

82.31%

7,367

8

To re-elect Bridget Messer as a Director

303,273,432

99.73

831,289

0.27

304,104,721

82.32%

6,602

9

To re-elect Jim Newman as a Director

266,379,022

87.59

37,725,699

12.41

304,104,721

82.32%

6,602

10

To re-elect Jon Noble as a Director

303,205,855

99.70

897,871

0.30

304,103,726

82.31%

7,597

11

To elect Sally-Ann Hibberd as a Director

266,446,292

87.62

37,658,429

12.38

304,104,721

82.32%

6,602

12

To elect Jonathan Moulds as a Director

266,379,940

87.59

37,724,781

12.41

304,104,721

82.32%

6,602

13

To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company

302,463,382

99.92

246,337

0.08

302,709,719

81.94%

1,401,603

14

To authorise the Audit Committee of the Board to determine the auditors' remuneration

303,193,647

99.70

910,331

0.30

304,103,978

82.31%

7,345

15

To authorise the Directors to allot shares pursuant to section 551 of the Act

287,047,764

94.39

17,058,135

5.61

304,105,899

82.32%

5,424

16

To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares

296,929,038

99.99

23,199

0.01

296,952,237

80.38%

7,159,086

17

To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares for the purposes of acquisitions or other capital investments

269,293,029

90.69

27,659,207

9.31

296,952,236

80.38%

7,159,086

18

To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares

302,399,400

99.46

1,643,560

0.54

304,042,960

82.30%

68,362

19

That a general meeting (other than an AGM) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice

292,759,040

96.27

11,347,822

3.73

304,106,862

82.32%

4,461

 

 

 

*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 Tuesday 17 September 2019, 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 369,439,455 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

 

investors@iggroup.com 

 

IG Group Press

Ramon Kaur                                       020 7573 0060

 

press@ig.com

 

FTI Consulting

 

Neil Doyle / Ed Berry                      020 3727 1141 / 1046

 

 

About IG

IG empowers informed, decisive, adventurous people to access opportunities in over 16,000 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 provide the world's best trading experience. Established in 1974 as the world's first financial derivatives firm, it continued leading the way by launching the world's first online and iPhone trading services.

 

IG is 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 stock trading service in the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, Austria and the Netherlands. IG has a range of affordable, fully managed investment portfolios, which 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, June 2019).


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