Rathbone Brothers PLC : Result of AGM

RATHBONE BROTHERS PLC ('Rathbones')
RESULTS OF THE 2014 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
NOTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LISTING RULE 9.6.18

At the forty-third Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 1 Curzon Street, London, W1J 5FB on Wednesday 14 May 2014, all the resolutions proposed (which were contained in the Notice of Meeting dated 8 April 2014) were passed on a poll.

Resolutions 1 to 16 were ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 19 were special resolutions. Resolution 20 was proposed as a shareholder resolution requiring a vote in favour of at least 66% of voting rights represented (assuming at least 50% of total voting rights are represented at the meeting which was the case).

The full text of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, a copy of which is on the Company's website at http://www.rathbones.com/investor-relations/governance. A copy has also been made available for inspection through the National Storage Mechanism which can be found at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

The results of the poll were as follows:

	Resolution	For	%	Against	%	Votes cast	Votes cast as a % of the voting capital	Withheld
1	To adopt the report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2013	33,893,937	100.00%	-	0.00%	33,893,937	71.15%	300,499
2	To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 December 2013	28,169,631	84.21%	5,281,939	15.79%	33,451,570	70.22%	742,866
3	To approve the directors' remuneration policy	28,377,124	95.67%	1,283,037	4.33%	29,660,161	62.26%	4,534,275
4	To declare a final dividend of 31p per share for the year ended 31 December 2013	34,118,157	100.00%	197	0.00%	34,118,354	71.62%	76,082
5	To re-elect Paul Chavasse as a director	34,111,838	99.99%	4,280	0.01%	34,116,118	71.61%	78,318
6	To re-elect Oliver Corbett as a director	34,041,091	99.99%	5,048	0.01%	34,046,139	71.47%	148,297
7	To elect James Dean as a director	34,037,883	99.98%	8,256	0.02%	34,046,139	71.47%	148,297
8	To re-elect David Harrel as a director	34,094,181	99.93%	24,173	0.07%	34,118,354	71.62%	76,082
9	To elect Philip Howell as a director	33,156,819	97.18%	961,535	2.82%	34,118,354	71.62%	76,082
10	To re-elect Kathryn Matthews as a director	34,113,999	99.99%	4,355	0.01%	34,118,354	71.62%	76,082
11	To re-elect Mark Nicholls as a director	34,106,357	99.97%	10,155	0.03%	34,116,512	71.61%	77,924
12	To re-elect Paul Stockton as a director	34,113,873	99.99%	4,481	0.01%	34,118,354	71.62%	76,082
13	To appoint KPMG LLP as auditors of the Company	33,866,190	99.26%	251,755	0.74%	34,117,945	71.62%	76,491
14	To authorise the directors to agree the remuneration of the auditors	34,115,848	100.00%	-	0.00%	34,115,848	71.61%	78,588
15	To approve an authority to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	34,098,203	99.96%	14,137	0.04%	34,112,340	71.60%	82,096
16	To approve a general authority to allot ordinary shares	32,218,196	94.43%	1,899,642	5.57%	34,117,838	71.62%	76,598
17	To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights	32,139,942	99.75%	81,682	0.25%	32,221,624	67.64%	1,972,812
18	To authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	34,115,530	99.99%	2,674	0.01%	34,118,204	71.62%	76,232
19	To authorise the convening of a general meeting (other than the AGM) or not less than 14 days' notice	33,580,781	98.42%	537,573	1.58%	34,118,354	71.62%	76,082
20	To allow the payment of variable remuneration of up to 200% of fixed remuneration	33,671,736	99.74%	86,798	0.26%	33,758,534	70.86%	203,225

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes cast are expressed as a percentage of 47,639,806 ordinary shares.  A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.  In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed at today's AGM will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism.

Richard Loader
Company Secretary

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