27th Apr 2017 12:36
RIT Capital Partners plc
27 April 2017
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Annual General Meeting of RIT Capital Partners plc was held on Thursday 27 April 2017.
All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 27 March 2017 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:
RESOLUTION | FOR/ DISCRETIONARY | AGAINST | VOTES WITHHELD | |
ORDINARY BUSINESS: | ||||
1. | Approval of the Directors' Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2016 | 58,745,335
| 286,523
| 1,286
|
2. | Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2016 | 58,029,286
| 916,184
| 87,672
|
3. | Approval of the Directors' Remuneration Policy | 55,264,637
| 3,678,080
| 89,878
|
4. | Re-election of Lord Rothschild as a Director | 51,822,076
| 939,399
| 6,271,668
|
5. | Re-election of John Cornish as a Director | 58,159,412
| 831,906
| 41,826
|
6. | Re-election of Jean Laurent-Bellue as a Director | 58,066,315
| 925,003
| 41,826
|
7. | Re-election of Michael Marks as a Director | 42,678,173
| 10,204,322
| 6,150,649
|
8. | Re-election of Mike Power as a Director | 58,952,800
| 19,288
| 61,057
|
9. | Re-election of Hannah Rothschild as a Director | 58,126,184
| 899,916
| 7,044
|
10. | Election of Amy Stirling as a Director | 59,004,020
| 1,974
| 27,151
|
11. | Re-election of The Duke of Wellington as a Director | 58,403,383
| 586,749
| 43,012
|
12. | Re-election of Mike Wilson as a Director | 58,967,214
| 24,381
| 41,550
|
13. | Re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors | 58,644,231
| 302,870
| 86,043
|
14. | To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditors | 58,958,651
| 55,253
| 19,241
|
SPECIAL BUSINESS: | ||||
15. | To renew the power to allot equity securities | 58,987,917 | 31,318 | 13,910 |
16. | To authorise the Directors to allot equity securities for cash. | 58,965,052 | 49,319 | 18,774 |
17. | To renew the authority to repurchase up to 14.99 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital | 58,999,380 | 24,738 | 9,027 |
18. | To renew the Share Appreciation Rights Plan | 55,184,757 | 3,229,925 | 618,462 |
19. | To change the notice period for general meetings other than annual general meetings to 14 days | 58,335,849 | 687,365 | 9,930 |
Resolutions 1 to 15 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 16 to 19 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 0.20% and 0.24% of all votes cast on the above resolutions.
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