Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6641Y

Jupiter Fund Management PLC

18 May 2016

 

Jupiter Fund Management plc

(the "Company")

Results of the Annual General Meeting

The Board announces that at the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the Company held today at The Zig Zag Building, 70 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6SQ, all the resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting were passed by the requisite majorities.

The results of the AGM resolutions, all decided by way of poll, are set out below.

RESOLUTIONS	FOR	% of Total votes cast	AGAINST	% of total votes against	WITHHELD	Total votes cast
1. To receive the report of the Directors and the audited Accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2015	369,131,950	97.94%	7,775,958	2.06%	0	376,907,908
2. To approve the Annual report on Remuneration for the year ended 31 December 2015	242,683,520	88.97%	30,100,002	11.03%	104,124,385	376,907,907
3. To elect Bridget Macaskill as a Director	376,518,381	99.90%	388,638	0.10%	0	376,907,019
4. To re-elect Liz Airey as a Director	376,397,290	99.86%	510,666	0.14%	2,946	376,910,902
5. To re-elect Maarten Slendebroek as a Director	375,974,448	99.75%	933,508	0.25%	2,946	376,910,902
6. To re-elect Edward Bonham Carter as a Director	370,916,742	98.41%	5,990,680	1.59%	3,480	376,910,902
7. To re-elect John Chatfeild-Roberts as a Director	369,527,326	98.04%	7,380,096	1.96%	3,480	376,910,902
8. To re-elect Lorraine Trainer as a Director	375,991,892	99.76%	918,073	0.24%	937	376,910,902
9. To re-elect Jon Little as a Director	376,171,601	99.81%	734,884	0.19%	4,417	376,910,902
10. To re-elect Jonathon Bond as a Director	376,170,301	99.80%	736,184	0.20%	4,417	376,910,902
11. To re-elect Polly Williams as a Director	374,501,014	99.36%	2,408,771	0.64%	937	376,910,722
12. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's auditors	364,220,458	97.28%	10,185,707	2.72%	2,502,841	376,909,006
13. To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to fix the auditors' remuneration	373,337,930	99.05%	3,569,576	0.95%	1,452	376,908,958
14. To authorise the Directors to allot shares in the Company	317,840,007	84.33%	59,060,588	15.67%	4,520	376,905,115
15. To authorise political donations and political expenditure	372,983,450	99.01%	3,729,233	0.99%	192,432	376,905,115
16. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights	293,852,120	78.02%	82,768,009	21.98%	284,986	376,905,115
17. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares	371,162,961	98.48%	5,738,197	1.52%	3,957	376,905,115
18. To approve the notice period of general meetings of the Company	347,893,438	92.30%	29,011,676	7.70%	0	376,905,114

As at today's date, the issued share capital of the Company comprises 457,699,916 shares. Resolutions 16, 17 and 18 were passed as special resolutions.

The Company has today sent copies of the resolutions passed at the AGM concerning items other than ordinary business to the National Storage Mechanism and these documents will shortly be available for inspection at: http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

Details of proxy votes lodged will be available shortly on the Company's website at http://www.jupiteram.com/Jupiter-Fund-Management-plc.

For further information please contact:         

	Investors/analysts	Media
Jupiter	Maarten Slendebroek  [phone]	Alicia Wyllie [phone]
FTI Consulting	Tom Blackwell [phone]	Andrew Walton [phone]

 

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