Result of Annual General Meeting

RNS Number : 4406B

IG Group Holdings plc

20 September 2018

 

IG Group Holdings plc
20 September 2018

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 2018 and accompanying reports	295,673,973	99.88	362,305	0.12	296,036,278	80.26%	263,807
2.	To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report	282,359,113	95.30	13,935,001	4.70	296,294,114	80.33%	5,971
3.	To declare a final dividend of 33.51 pence per share	295,929,226	99.87	370,860	0.13	296,300,086	80.33%	0
4.	To re-elect Andy Green as a Director	293,919,061	99.20	2,378,556	0.80	296,297,617	80.33%	2,468
5.	To re-elect Peter Hetherington as a Director	294,297,518	99.32	2,000,100	0.68	296,297,618	80.33%	2,468
6.	To re-elect Paul Mainwaring as a Director	292,578,054	98.74	3,719,564	1.26	296,297,618	80.33%	2,468
7.	To re-elect Malcolm Le May as a Director	290,053,095	97.89	6,241,013	2.11	296,294,108	80.33%	5,977
8.	To re-elect June Felix as a Director	294,834,687	99.51	1,458,460	0.49	296,293,147	80.33%	6,939
9.	To re-elect Stephen Hill as a Director	294,495,628	99.39	1,797,519	0.61	296,293,147	80.33%	6,939
10.	To re-elect Jim Newman as a Director	294,264,196	99.32	2,028,951	0.68	296,293,147	80.33%	6,939
11.	To re-elect Sam Tymms as a Director	293,392,139	99.02	2,901,007	0.98	296,293,146	80.33%	6,939
12.	To elect Bridget Messer as a Director	293,697,240	99.12	2,600,378	0.88	296,297,618	80.33%	2,468
13.	To elect Jon Noble as a Director	293,553,571	99.07	2,744,047	0.93	296,297,618	80.33%	2,468
14.	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company	293,908,084	99.19	2,388,248	0.81	296,296,332	80.33%	3,753
15.	To authorise the Audit Committee of the Board to determine the auditors' remuneration	294,429,734	99.37	1,869,399	0.63	296,299,133	80.33%	953
16.	To authorise the Directors to allot shares	280,577,964	94.70	15,716,227	5.30	296,294,191	80.33%	5,895
17.	To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares	295,169,626	99.99	17,389	0.01	295,187,015	80.03%	1,113,071
18.	To disapply the statutory pre-emption rights attaching to shares for the purposes of acquisitions or other capital investments	266,608,552	90.32	28,578,702	9.68	295,187,254	80.03%	1,112,831
19.	To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares	294,253,373	99.39	1,806,760	0.61	296,060,133	80.27%	239,952
20.	That a general meeting (other than an AGM) may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice	272,896,889	92.10	23,398,412	7.90	296,295,301	80.33%	4,785

*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 18 September 2018, 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 368,844,455 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 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 share dealing service in the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, Austria and the Netherlands. IG has 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, February 2018)               

 

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