Result of AGM 2021

RNS Number : 5693Y
Quilter PLC
13 May 2021
 

13 May 2021

Quilter plc

 

Result of Annual General Meeting 2021

 

Quilter plc (the "Company") announces that at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today, all the resolutions put to shareholders were passed by the requisite majorities. Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 and 18 were passed as special resolutions.

 

The results of the poll are set out below.

 

 

Resolution

Number of votes cast "For" the resolution

 % of votes cast "For" the resolution

Number of votes cast "Against" the resolution

 % of votes cast "Against" the resolution

Total number of votes cast

% of issued share capital voted

Number of votes Withheld

1.

To receive the 2020 Report and Accounts

1,304,745,500

100.00

15,568

0.00

1,304,761,068

74.81

1,555,352

2.

To approve the Remuneration Report (excluding the Directors' Remuneration Policy)

1,235,244,118

96.88

39,808,026

3.12

1,275,052,144

73.11

31,260,900

3.

To declare a final dividend

1,304,104,235

99.86

1,879,970

0.14

1,305,984,205

74.88

333,748

4.

To re-elect Tim Breedon as a Director

1,305,362,064

99.96

570,860

0.04

1,305,932,924

74.88

381,963

5.

To re-elect Tazim Essani as a Director

1,305,874,153

100.00

41,841

0.00

1,305,915,994

74.88

398,893

6.

To re-elect Paul Feeney as a Director

1,304,983,613

99.93

947,567

0.07

1,305,931,180

74.88

385,240

7.

To re-elect Rosie Harris as a Director

1,305,870,860

100.00

43,566

0.00

1,305,914,426

74.88

400,461

8.

To re-elect Glyn Jones as a Director

1,305,353,710

99.96

568,687

0.04

1,305,922,397

74.88

394,023

9.

To re-elect Moira Kilcoyne as a Director

1,305,876,301

100.00

43,249

0.00

1,305,919,550

74.88

395,337

10.

To re-elect Ruth Markland as a Director

1,303,966,147

99.85

1,947,825

0.15

1,305,913,972

74.88

400,915

11.

To re-elect Paul Matthews as a Director

1,305,446,888

99.96

468,700

0.04

1,305,915,588

74.88

399,299

12.

To re-elect  George Reid as a Director

1,305,450,041

99.96

466,993

0.04

1,305,917,034

74.88

396,320

13.

To re-elect Mark Satchel as a Director

1,305,783,472

99.99

136,977

0.01

1,305,920,449

74.88

395,971

14.

To re-appoint Pricewaterhouse-Coopers LLP as Auditor of the Company

1,303,617,100

99.82

2,343,883

0.18

1,305,960,983

74.88

355,437

15.

To authorise the Board Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the Auditor

1,305,642,539

99.98

324,962

0.02

1,305,967,501

74.88

348,919

16.

To authorise political donations or expenditure by the Company and its subsidiaries

1,068,742,194

82.07

233,464,408

17.93

1,302,206,602

74.67

4,111,351

17.

To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares*

1,278,886,005

97.95

26,785,354

2.05

1,305,671,359

74.86

645,061

18.

To authorise the Company to enter into Contingent Purchase Contracts*

1,302,855,984

99.81

2,491,032

0.19

1,305,347,016

74.85

969,404

*Special resolution

 

Notes:

i.  As at 6:30pm on 11 May 2021, the time by which shareholders who wanted to vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, the number of issued shares in the Company was 1,744,055,918 ordinary shares. In accordance with the Company's articles of association, on a poll every member present in person or by proxy had one vote for every share held.

 

ii.  Votes withheld are not votes in law and therefore have not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for or against a resolution.

 

iii.  All percentages are shown to two decimal places.

 

Pursuant to UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of all resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed at the AGM today will be submitted to and available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available to view at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism .  

 

The poll results will also be available shortly on the Company's website at quilter.com/agm .

 

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Enquiries:

 

 

 

Investor Relations:

John-Paul Crutchley

 

Keilah Codd

 

 

+44 (0)7741 385 251

 

+44 (0)7776 649 681

Company Secretary:

Patrick Gonsalves

 

+44 (0) 7391 867 081

 

Camarco

G eoffrey Pelham-Lane

 

 

 

+44 (0)20 3757 4985

 

About Quilter plc:

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business in the UK and internationally, helping to create prosperity for the generations of today and tomorrow.

 

Quilter oversees £119.9 billion in customer investments (as at 31 March 2021).

 

It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions and discretionary fund management.

 

The business is comprised of two segments: Advice and Wealth Management and Wealth Platforms.

 

Advice and Wealth Management encompasses the financial planning businesses (Quilter Private Client Advisers, Quilter Financial Planning and Quilter Financial Advisers), the discretionary fund management business (Quilter Cheviot) and the Multi-asset investment solutions business (Quilter Investors). Wealth Platforms includes the Old Mutual Wealth UK Platform and Quilter International, including AAM Advisory in Singapore.

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