RIT Capital Partners plc
16 April 2013
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Annual General Meeting of RIT Capital Partners plc was held on Tuesday 16 April 2013.
All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 7 March 2013 were passed, and prints of the items of special business past will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism.
The proxy votes cast on each resolution were as follows:
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FOR/ |
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VOTES |
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RESOLUTION |
DISCRETIONARY |
AGAINST |
WITHHELD |
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ORDINARY BUSINESS: |
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1. |
Approval of the Directors' Report and Accounts |
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for the period ended 31 December 2012 |
61,456,596 |
132,541 |
18,304 |
2. |
Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Report |
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for the period ended 31 December 2012 |
60,718,617 |
517,395 |
371,477 |
3. |
Re-election of Lord Rothschild as a Director |
58,339,215 |
725,303 |
2,540,677 |
4. |
Re-election of John Cornish as a Director |
60,197,760 |
1,359,834 |
49,894 |
5. |
Re-election of Lord Douro as a Director |
61,182,478 |
133,826 |
291,185 |
6. |
Re-election of Jean Laurent-Bellue as a Director |
59,686,407 |
1,865,407 |
55,674 |
7. |
Re-election of James Leigh-Pemberton as a |
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Director |
58,545,508 |
3,012,767 |
49,214 |
8. |
Re-election of Michael Marks as a Director |
59,787,995 |
1,760,231 |
59,263 |
9. |
Re-election of Lord Myners as a Director |
60,183,668 |
1,376,552 |
47,269 |
10. |
Re-election of Sandra Robertson as a Director |
59,779,730 |
1,781,088 |
46,291 |
11. |
Re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP |
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as auditors |
55,462,421 |
1,682,023 |
4,463,045 |
12. |
To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration |
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of the auditors |
60,101,400 |
1,382,282 |
123,806 |
SPECIAL BUSINESS: |
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13. |
To renew the power to allot equity securities |
61,441,740 |
111,920 |
53,829 |
14. |
To authorise the Directors to allot equity securities |
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for cash |
61,451,053 |
107,086 |
49,207 |
15. |
To renew the authority to repurchase up to 14.99 |
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per cent of the Company's issued share capital |
61,498,927 |
74,933 |
33,628 |
16. |
To change the notice period for general meetings |
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other than annual general meetings to 14 days |
60,326,230 |
1,237,876 |
43,383 |
Resolutions 1 to 13 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 14 to 16 were passed as special resolutions.