Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9082D

Schroders PLC

02 May 2013

 



Schroders plc

Annual General Meeting 2013

A poll was held on each of the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today.  All Resolutions were passed and the results are as follows:

	Resolution	For (including discretionary)	%	Against	%	Withheld	*Votes cast as a percentage of Schroders plc's issued ordinary share capital
1	Report & Accounts	179,377,260	99.83	297,958	0.17	641,899	79.15
2	Final Dividend	180,314,649	100.00	383	0.00	2,086	79.79
3	Remuneration report	174,940,701	98.01	3,547,592	1.99	1,828,824	78.98
4	Election of Nichola Pease	179,861,832	99.75	452,179	0.25	3,107	79.79
5	Re-election of Ashley Almanza	179,789,700	99.71	523,991	0.29	3,427	79.79
6	Re-election of Andrew Beeson	179,859,163	99.75	442,565	0.25	15,390	79.79
7	Re-election of Luc Bertrand	179,852,750	99.74	461,502	0.26	2,866	79.79
8	Re-election of Robin Buchanan	179,165,148	99.72	509,330	0.28	642,639	79.51
9	Re-election of Michael Dobson	179,871,619	99.75	442,673	0.25	2,826	79.79
10	Re-election of Lord Howard of Penrith	179,787,369	99.71	524,283	0.29	5,466	79.79
11	Re-election of Philip Mallinckrodt	179,888,444	99.76	425,848	0.24	2,826	79.79
12	Re-election of Bruno Schroder	178,144,070	98.80	2,170,522	1.20	2,526	79.79
13	Re-election of Massimo Tosato	179,887,604	99.76	426,688	0.24	2,826	79.79
14	Re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors	177,544,960	98.83	2,105,066	1.17	667,091	79.50
15	Authority for the Directors to fix the auditors' remuneration.	178,185,816	98.95	1,882,091	1.05	249,211	79.68
16	Authority to allot shares	178,904,403	99.22	1,404,782	0.78	7,933	79.79
17	Authority to purchase own shares	180,296,020	99.99	18,512	0.01	2,586	79.79
18	Notice of general meetings	175,429,591	97.29	4,879,394	2.71	7,783	79.79

*For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of Schroders plc's (the Company) total issued ordinary share capital (excluding shares held in Treasury) as at 11.30am on 30 April 2013, being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the Company's register of members in order to attend and vote at the annual general meeting. 

The number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 226,022,400.

Resolutions 17 and 18 were passed as special resolutions.  Copies of resolutions 16, 17 and 18 will be filed at Companies House.

In accordance with LR 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, at today's Annual General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

At the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting, the following Board and Committee changes, which were announced on 7 March 2013, came into effect:

·    Merlyn Lowther has stepped down from the Board;

·    Ashley Almanza became Chairman of the Board Audit and Risk Committee; and

·    Nichola Pease joined the Board Audit and Risk Committee;

Enquiries:

Graham Staples

Company Secretary

Schroders plc

Tel: [phone]

2 May 2013

 

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