RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 26 MAY 2016
Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at The Honourable Artillery Company, Armoury House, City Road, London EC1Y 2BQ, all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.
The votes cast were as follows:
Resolution |
For 1 |
Against |
Votes Withheld 2 |
||
No. of shares1 |
% |
No. of shares |
% |
||
Resolution 1 Receipt of financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2015 |
4,359,842,672 |
99.96 |
1,671,886 |
0.04 |
4,552,624 |
Resolution 2 Declaration of a final dividend of 9.95p per ordinary share |
4,354,654,312 |
100 |
159,830 |
0 |
11,253,058 |
Resolution 3 Re-election of Richard Meddings as a Director |
4,359,576,369 |
99.94 |
2,610,544 |
0.06 |
3,873,828 |
Resolution 4 Re-election of Carolyn Bradley as a Director |
4,359,271,235 |
99.93 |
2,876,007 |
0.07 |
3,922,499 |
Resolution 5 Re-election of Lizabeth Zlatkus as a Director |
4,359,486,861 |
99.94 |
2,684,791 |
0.06 |
3,890,773 |
Resolution 6 Re-election of Mark Zinkula as a Director |
4,353,417,249 |
99.80 |
8,851,111 |
0.20 |
3,794,065 |
Resolution 7 Re-election of Stuart Popham as a Director |
4,315,098,722 |
98.92 |
47,156,213 |
1.08 |
3,805,806 |
Resolution 8 Re-election of Julia Wilson as a Director |
4,354,487,089 |
99.82 |
7,736,991 |
0.18 |
3,838,345 |
Resolution 9 Re-election of Mark Gregory as a Director |
4,338,927,156 |
99.46 |
23,357,820 |
0.54 |
3,765,765 |
Resolution 10 Re-election of Rudy Markham as a Director |
4,328,315,043 |
99.29 |
30,877,647 |
0.71 |
6,859,735 |
Resolution 11 Re-election of John Stewart as a Director |
4,356,560,000 |
99.87 |
5,858,088 |
0.13 |
3,633,837 |
Resolution 12 Re-election of Nigel Wilson as a Director |
4,357,590,344 |
99.89 |
4,887,883 |
0.11 |
3,574,198 |
Resolution 13 Re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors |
4,243,758,216 |
99.62 |
16,005,336 |
0.38 |
106,209,361 |
Resolution 14 To authorise the Director's to fix the Auditors' remuneration |
4,307,385,142 |
99.76 |
10,366,465 |
0.24 |
48,216,531 |
Resolution 15* To adopt new Articles of Association |
4,361,053,016 |
99.98 |
1,011,358 |
0.02 |
3,898,560 |
Resolution 16 Approval of Remuneration Report |
4,188,900,286 |
97.28 |
117,198,364 |
2.72 |
59,869,488 |
Resolution 17 Authority to allot equity securities |
4,345,713,171 |
99.62 |
16,607,061 |
0.38 |
3,646,194 |
Resolution 18 Authority to make political donations |
4,267,755,863 |
97.87 |
93,091,140 |
2.13 |
5,125,910 |
Resolution 19 Scrip dividend programme |
4,353,282,318 |
99.98 |
973,267 |
0.02 |
11,707,253 |
Resolution 20* Disapplication of pre-emption rights |
3,608,377,406 |
87.57 |
512,044,554 |
12.43 |
245,543,657 |
Resolution 21* Authority to purchase own shares |
4,287,400,470 |
98.27 |
75,274,167 |
1.73 |
3,303,501 |
Resolution 22* Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice |
4,119,631,483 |
94.43 |
243,003,779 |
5.57 |
3,331,014 |
Notes:
1 The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion.
2 A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution.
3 Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received.
4 Voting was conducted by poll.
5 The total number of proxy votes cast was 4,366,067,200 representing 73.39% of voting capital as at 24 May 2016. At the close of business on 24 May 2016, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,949,112,452 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).
* Denotes a Special Resolution.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and also on the Company's website at http://investor.legalandgeneral.com/agm.cfm
In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do
Name of person making notification: |
Jenny McCarthy |
Contact number: |
020 3124 2142 |
Date of notification: |
26 May 2016 |