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	[phone] [phone]
Company Secretary: Patrick Gonsalves	[phone]
Camarco G eoffrey Pelham-Lane	[phone]

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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