Result of AGM

RNS Number : 9806L

Standard Life plc

14 May 2010

 



Standard Life plc

Results of Annual General Meeting

The Board of Standard Life plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting earlier today, 14 May 2010, were duly passed.  The results of the polls were as follows:

	For	% For	Against	Total Votes Validly Cast	% of Issued Share Capital Voted	Votes Withheld
Resolution 1: To receive and consider the Annual Report and Accounts for 2009	702,196,408	99.65	2,437,317	704,633,725	31.49	1,523,187
Resolution 2: To approve the Directors' remuneration report	678,055,766	96.52	24,467,069	702,522,835	31.39	3,634,077
Resolution 3: To declare a final dividend for 2009	705,246,794	99.95	382,560	705,629,354	31.53	526,833
Resolution 4: To reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors	691,625,434	99.30	4,876,891	696,502,325	31.12	9,654,587
Resolution 5: To authorise the Directors to set the auditors' fees	701,499,109	99.56	3,098,782	704,597,891	31.49	1,558,296
Resolution 6A: To re-elect Kent Atkinson as a Director	684,738,616	97.40	18,312,240	703,050,856	31.42	3,105,331
Resolution 6B: To re-elect Baroness McDonagh as a Director	696,518,649	99.08	6,493,730	703,012,379	31.42	3,143,808
Resolution 6C: To re-elect David Nish as a Director	675,235,200	95.98	28,290,514	703,525,714	31.44	2,631,198
Resolution 7A: To elect David Grigson as a Director	699,097,169	99.49	3,612,842	702,710,011	31.40	3,445,450
Resolution 7B: To elect Sheelagh Whittaker as a Director	695,941,833	99.03	6,827,842	702,769,675	31.40	3,387,237
Resolution 8: To authorise the Directors to issue further shares	684,132,984	97.14	20,146,646	704,279,630	31.47	1,877,282
Resolution 9 (Special): To disapply share pre-emption rights	693,217,070	98.71	9,028,928	702,245,998	31.38	3,910,914
Resolution 10 (Special): To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares	698,880,654	99.21	5,575,355	704,456,009	31.48	1,700,903
Resolution 11: To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure	669,890,006	95.56	31,105,226	700,995,232	31.32	5,154,192
Resolution 12 (Special): To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days' notice	643,756,603	92.00	55,945,676	699,702,279	31.27	6,452,331
Resolution 13 (Special): To adopt new articles of association	688,778,595	99.09	6,352,840	695,131,435	31.06	11,025,477
Resolution 14: To approve the new Standard Life Investments Long-Term Incentive Plan	621,108,518	95.65	28,225,619	649,334,137	29.02	56,822,775

The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on Wednesday 12 May was 2,237,821,397 ordinary shares of 10 pence each.

Votes withheld are not a vote in law and have not been counted in the calculation of the votes for and against each resolution, the total votes validly cast or the calculation of the proportion of issued share capital voted.

The Board confirms that, as previously announced, Jackie Hunt was appointed to the Board at the conclusion of the meeting.

Copies of all resolutions are available for inspection in the AGM Guide previously submitted to the Financial Services Authority at their Document Viewing Facility at:

25 The North Colonnade

Canary Wharf

London

E14 5HS 

The AGM Guide and the voting results are also available on the Standard Life plc website at www.standardlife.com

14 May 2010

Enquiries:

Kenneth Gilmour, Group Secretariat 0131 245 0751

Gordon Aitken, Investor Relations 0131 245 6799

Barry Cameron, Media Relations 0131 245 6165

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