Results of AGM

RNS Number : 5437F

Jupiter Fund Management PLC

18 May 2017

 

Jupiter Fund Management plc

(the "Company")

18 May 2017

Results of the Annual General Meeting

The Board announces that at the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the Company held yesterday 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	Total votes cast	Votes cast as a percentage of issued ordinary share capital*	Votes withheld*
1.To receive the Directors' report and the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2016	361,678,736	99.51%	1,777,549	0.49%	368,306,264	79.41%	4,849,979
2.To approve the Annual Report on Remuneration for the year ended 31 December 2016	349,856,989	97.83%	7,770,888	2.17%	368,306,243	78.14%	10,678,366
3.To approve the Directors' remuneration policy	327,705,740	90.37%	34,938,417	9.63%	368,306,263	79.23%	5,662,106
4.To elect Charlotte Jones as a Director	362,323,475	99.68%	1,151,184	0.32%	368,306,264	79.41%	4,831,605
5.To elect Karl Sternberg as a Director	341,051,694	93.83%	22,421,114	6.17%	368,306,264	79.41%	4,833,456
6.To re-elect Liz Airey as a Director	362,537,309	99.74%	933,657	0.26%	368,306,264	79.41%	4,835,298
7.To re-elect Jonathon Bond as a Director	363,093,701	99.90%	379,107	0.10%	368,306,264	79.41%	4,833,456
8.To re-elect Edward Bonham Carter as a Director	362,869,257	99.83%	606,902	0.17%	368,306,264	79.41%	4,830,105
9.To re-elect Bridget Macaskill as a Director	363,089,089	99.89%	383,719	0.11%	368,306,264	79.41%	4,833,456
10.To re-elect Maarten Slendebroek as a Director	362,866,537	99.83%	608,122	0.17%	368,306,264	79.41%	4,831,605
11.To re-elect Lorraine Trainer as a Director	346,977,427	95.46%	16,495,380	4.54%	368,306,263	79.41%	4,833,456
12.To re-elect Polly Williams as a Director	361,608,972	99.49%	1,863,835	0.51%	368,306,263	79.41%	4,833,456
13.To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's auditors	348,806,385	95.96%	14,667,780	4.04%	368,306,263	79.41%	4,832,098
14.To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to fix the auditors' remuneration	361,236,498	99.38%	2,242,037	0.62%	368,306,264	79.41%	4,827,729
15.To authorise the Directors to allot shares in the Company	317,744,398	87.42%	45,731,460	12.58%	368,306,264	79.41%	4,830,406
16.To authorise political donations and political expenditure	362,011,548	99.60%	1,465,596	0.40%	368,306,264	79.41%	4,829,120
17.To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights	317,498,302	87.35%	45,977,556	12.65%	368,306,264	79.41%	4,830,406
18.To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares	356,914,407	98.19%	6,561,450	1.81%	368,306,263	79.41%	4,830,406
19.To approve general meetings (other than annual general meetings) of the Company being called on 14 clear days' notice	356,548,350	98.09%	6,928,334	1.91%	368,306,264	79.41%	4,829,580
20.To approve the adoption of new Articles of Association	356,991,722	99.99%	46,834	0.01%	368,306,263	78.01%	11,267,707

*Please note that 'vote withheld' is not a vote under English law and is not counted in the calculation of votes 'for' or 'against' a resolution, or in the 'votes cast as a percentage of issued share capital'.

The issued share capital of the Company comprises 457,699,916 shares. Resolutions 17, 18, 19 and 20 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 are 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 https://www.jupiteram.com/Global/en/Investor-Relations/Shareholder-information/AGM-information.

For further information please contact:         

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

 

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