Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9642C

Standard Life Private Eqty Trst PLC

25 January 2018

 

Standard Life Private Equity Trust PLC

To:                   RNS

From:                Standard Life Private Equity Trust PLC

Date:                25 January 2018

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Board is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held on 25 January 2018, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting put to the AGM were passed by the requisite majority on a show of hands.

The Board is pleased to announce the following proxy results of the resolutions put forward at the AGM.

	Ordinary Resolutions	Votes For (inc. discretionary)	Votes Against	Votes Withheld	Total Votes
1.	That the audited Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 September 2017 be received.	104,669,180	0	750	104,669,930
2.	That the Directors' remuneration report for the year ended 30 September 2017 be approved.	104,657,408	5,147	7,375	104,669,930
3.	That a final dividend of 6.0 pence per ordinary share be approved.	104,669,180	0	750	104,669,930
4.	That Mr Devine be re-elected as a Director.	104,664,908	4,272	750	104,669,930
5.	That Ms McComb be re-elected as a Director.	104,669,180	0	750	104,669,930
6.	That Mr Warner be re-elected as a Director.	104,655,406	7,523	7,000	104,669,929
7.	That Ms Seymour-Williams be elected as a Director.	104,669,180	0	750	104,669,930
8.	That Mr Thomson be elected as a Director.	104,666,967	235	2,728	104,669,930
9.	That KPMG LLP be re-appointed as Independent Auditor and that their remuneration be fixed by the Directors.	104,666,902	2,653	375	104,669,930
10.	That the Directors be authorised to allot shares in the Company up to an aggregate nominal amount of £102,395.	104,625,723	3,156	41,051	104,669,930
	Special Resolutions
11.	That the Directors be authorised to allot equity securities for cash in accordance with section 570 of the Companies Act 2006 (disapplication of pre-emption rights).	104,069,798	5,945	594,187	104,669,930
12.	That the Company be authorised to buy-back shares of up to 14.99% of the Company's issued ordinary share capital.	104,646,493	22,687	750	104,669,930

PASSING OF RESOLUTIONS AT THE AGM OF THE COMPANY

A copy of the AGM resolutions which require to be lodged with the UKLA have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism (NSM) and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM¹.

Maven Capital Partners UK LLP, Secretary

25 January 2018

¹ Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement. 

 

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