Result of AGM

Quilter PLC

23 May 2024

 

23 May 2024

Quilter plc

Result of Annual General Meeting 2024

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 15 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 16 and 17 were passed as special resolutions.

The Company notes that more than 20% of the votes cast on resolution 15 ("To authorise political donations by the Company and its subsidiaries") were against that resolution. 

The Company has actively engaged with our shareholders on this issue since Listing in 2018 and understand their concerns which reflect a difference in market practice for many of our South African shareholders. The Company will continue to engage with shareholders in accordance with the UK Corporate Governance Code and will provide an update on these discussions in due course.

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 2023 Report and Accounts	1,070,505,053	100.00	11,416	0.00	1,070,516,469	76.24	2,765,673
2.	To approve the Remuneration Report (excluding the Directors' Remuneration Policy)	1,042,122,729	97.13	30,842,412	2.87	1,072,965,141	76.42	317,021
3.	To declare a final dividend	1,072,971,150	100.00	2,570	0.00	1,072,973,720	76.42	308,422
4.	To re-elect Neeta Atkar MBE as a Director	1,064,021,974	99.17	8,926,893	0.83	1,072,948,867	76.42	331,777
5.	To re-elect Tim Breedon CBE as a Director	1,063,919,943	99.16	9,034,396	0.84	1,072,954,339	76.42	326,305
6.	To re-elect Chris Hill as a Director	1,072,905,907	100.00	48,433	0.00	1,072,954,340	76.42	326,304
7.	To re-elect Moira Kilcoyne as a Director	1,072,934,326	100.00	18,065	0.00	1,072,952,391	76.42	328,253
8.	To re-elect Steven Levin as a Director	1,072,938,704	100.00	15,399	0.00	1,072,954,103	76.42	326,541
9.	To re-elect Ruth Markland as a Director	1,061,673,785	99.11	9,554,293	0.89	1,071,228,078	76.29	2,052,566
10.	To re-elect George Reid as a Director	1,064,038,398	99.17	8,915,941	0.83	1,072,954,339	76.42	326,305
11.	To re-elect Chris Samuel as a Director	1,072,909,619	100.00	40,046	0.00	1,072,949,665	76.42	330,979
12.	To re-elect Mark Satchel as a Director	1,072,935,218	100.00	17,459	0.00	1,072,952,677	76.42	327,967
13.	To re-appoint Pricewaterhouse-Coopers LLP as Auditor of the Company	1,071,204,195	99.84	1,744,742	0.16	1,072,948,937	76.42	331,707
14.	To authorise the Board Audit Committee to determine the remuneration of the Auditor	1,069,856,726	99.71	3,108,783	0.29	1,072,965,509	76.42	315,135
15.	To authorise political donations or expenditure by the Company and its subsidiaries	780,449,542	72.74	292,508,264	27.26	1,072,957,806	76.42	324,336
16.	To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares*	1,070,926,970	99.83	1,847,435	0.17	1,072,774,405	76.40	507,737
17.	To authorise the Company to enter into Contingent Purchase Contracts*	1,071,022,750	99.84	1,747,641	0.16	1,072,770,391	76.40	511,751

*Special resolution

Notes:

i.    As at 6:30pm on Tuesday 21 May 2024, 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 1,404,105,498 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 plc.quilter.com/gm.

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Enquiries:

Investor Relations: John-Paul Crutchley	[phone]
Company Secretary: Clare Barrett	[phone]
Camarco   Geoffrey Pelham-Lane	[phone]

About Quilter plc:

Quilter plc is a leading provider of financial advice, investments and wealth management, committed to being the UK's best wealth manager for clients and their advisers.

Quilter oversees £111.6 billion in customer investments (as at 31 March 2024).

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: Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.

High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning.

 

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