Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9336V

RIT Capital Partners PLC

21 April 2016

 

RIT Capital Partners plc

21 April 2016

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of RIT Capital Partners plc was held on Thursday 21 April 2016.

All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 29 February 2016 were passed, and prints of the items of special business passed will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism.

The proxy votes cast on each resolution were as follows:

		FOR/		VOTES
RESOLUTION		DISCRETIONARY	AGAINST	WITHHELD
ORDINARY BUSINESS:
1.	Approval of the Directors' Report and Accounts
	for the year ended 31 December 2015	57,715,447	130,877	139,778
2.	Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Report
	for the year ended 31 December 2015	57,103,277	753,121	129,704
3.	Re-election of Lord Rothschild as a Director	50,310,059	954,731	6,719,812
4.	Re-election of John Cornish as a Director	57,946,572	4,284	35,247
5.	Re-election of Jean Laurent-Bellue as a Director	57,745,690	203,955	36,458
6.	Re-election of Michael Marks as a Director	55,531,458	1,902,611	552,033
7.	Re-election of Mike Power as a Director	57,951,024	282	34,797
8.	Re-election of Hannah Rothschild as a Director	57,295,031	676,212	14,860
9.	Re-election of Amy Stirling as a Director	57,969,582	1,243	15,278
10.	Re-election of The Duke of Wellington as a Director	57,787,098	49,738	149,266
11.	Re-election of Mike Wilson as a Director	57,817,555	709	167,839
12.	Re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
	as auditors	57,701,408	255,699	28,995
13.	To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration
	of the auditors	57,956,658	1,341	28,104
SPECIAL BUSINESS:
14.	To renew the power to allot equity securities	57,919,634	23,028	43,441
15.	To authorise the Directors to allot equity securities
	for cash.	52,124,281	5,762,429	99,392
16.	To renew the authority to repurchase up to 14.99
	per cent. of the Company's issued share capital	57,925,724	36,305	24,074
17.	To change the notice period for general meetings
	other than annual general meetings to 14 days	57,126,662	835,233	24,208

Resolutions 1 to 14 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 15 to 17 were passed as special resolutions.

Proxy votes in favour of the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting to be cast at his discretion represented between 0.34% and 0.39% of all votes cast on the above resolutions.

 

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