Results of AGM

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Polar Capital Holdings PLC

11 September 2008

 



POLAR CAPITAL HOLDINGS plc

RESULTS OF Annual General Meeting held on Thursday

11 SEPTEMBER 2008

Polar Capital Holdings plc ('Polar Capital' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions proposed at its annual general meeting ('AGM') held on 11 September 2008 were unanimously passed on a show of hands.

The number of proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting for each of the resolutions are as noted in the table below and a copy of the proxy voting will be available shortly from the Company's website, www.polarcapital.co.uk under corporate information of the investor relations section.  

At today's AGM it was also announced that Brian Ashford-Russell will step down from his position on the executive committee of the Company as of 31 October 2008 and will become a Non-Executive Director of Polar Capital.  In addition to this role, he will continue to remain involved with the technology team at Polar Capital assisting on investment strategy.  He also remains a Director of the Polar Capital Technology Trust plc.  

For further enquiries:

Polar Capital Holdings plc Neil Taylor [phone]

Landsbanki Securities (UK) Limited Simon Bridges, Managing Director Claes Spång, Associate Director [phone]

FD Ed Gascoigne-Pees Felicity Murdoch [phone]

Proxy voting table

Resolution Number	Number of Votes For	Number of Votes Against	Number of Votes Discretionary	Number of Votes Abstain / Withheld	Total Votes Cast (Including Abstain / Withheld)
01 Receiving Report and Accounts	29,726,181	0	0	0	29,726,181
02 Appointment of M Thomas as a Director	29,726,181	0	0	0	29,726,181
03 Re-appointment of Auditors	29,726,181	0	0	0	29,726,181
04 Remuneration of Auditors	29,726,181	0	0	0	29,726,181
05 Power to allot shares for cash	29,720,181	0	0	6,000	29,726,181
06 Power to buy back shares	29,726,181	0	0	0	29,726,181
07 Adopt new Articles of Association	29,724,081	600	0	1,500	29,726,181

 

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