26th Feb 2026 16:22
Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust plc ("the Company")
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300YV7J2TWLE7PV84
Results of the Company's 15th Annual General Meeting ("AGM")
held at 2:00pm on Thursday 26 February 2026
All the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company were voted on and passed on a poll. The resolutions proposed at the AGM can be found in the Notice of AGM which is available on the Company's website.
The following table indicates the number of poll votes received for each of the resolutions. It should be noted that votes withheld do not constitute votes in law. As at the date of the AGM, the Company's issued share capital consisted of 124,149,256 Ordinary shares of 25p each. The Company holds 25,754,256 Ordinary shares in treasury. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company is 98,395,000; 40% of the voting rights were cast by proxy.
In accordance with Listing Rule 6.4.2, copies of resolutions 14 to 16 (having been passed as special resolutions), will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Resolution | In favour | Against | Withheld |
1. To receive and consider the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 September 2025.
| 40,011,212 | 18,189 | 24,417 |
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy.
| 39,967,772 | 49,372 | 36,674 |
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Implementation Report for the year ended 30 September 2025.
| 39,956,837 | 54,851 | 42,130 |
4. To re-elect Lisa Arnold as a Director.
| 39,012,966 | 1,018,462 | 22,390 |
5. To re-elect Neal Ransome as a Director.
| 39,457,403 | 568,048 | 28,367 |
6. To elect Caroline Gulliver as a Director.
| 39,992,139 | 16,712 | 44,967 |
7. To elect Stacey Parrinder-Johnson as a Director.
| 39,986,133 | 22,718 | 44,967 |
8. To re-elect Jeremy Whitley as a Director.
| 39,452,174 | 568,189 | 33,455 |
9. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors.
| 39,974,911 | 56,509 | 22,398 |
10. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration.
| 40,021,770 | 7,391 | 24,657 |
11. To approve the Company's Dividend Policy.
| 40,035,753 | 3,854 | 14,211 |
12. To authorise the allotment of ordinary shares - First Authority.
| 40,022,721 | 16,433 | 14,664 |
13. To authorise the allotment of ordinary shares - Second Authority.
| 39,978,772 | 52,527 | 22,519 |
14. To disapply pre-emption rights - First Authority.
| 39,938,516 | 91,533 | 23,769 |
15. To disapply pre-emption rights - Second Authority.
| 39,879,803 | 150,246 | 23,769 |
16. To grant the Company authority to buy back its own ordinary shares.
| 39,769,459 | 265,060 | 19,299 |
Enquiries:
Tracey Lago, FCG
Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust plc
020 7227 2700
https://www.polarcapitalglobalhealthcaretrust.co.uk/
26 February 2026
Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.
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