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RNS Number : 7958N
Standard Life Private Eqty Trst PLC
22 January 2019
Standard Life Private Equity Trust PLC
To: RNS
From: Standard Life Private Equity Trust PLC
Date: 22 January 2019
RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Board of Standard Life Private Equity Trust PLC ("the
Company") is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting
("AGM") of the Company held on 22 January 2019, all resolutions set
out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting put to the AGM were
passed by the requisite majority on a show of hands.
At the record date for the Annual General Meeting, being 18
January 2019, the total number of voting rights in the Company
stood at 153,746,294 and the total number of shares in issue was
153,746,294.
In accordance with the provisions of E.2.2 of the UK Corporate
Governance Code, the Company advises that for the Annual General
Meeting, valid proxy appointments were made in respect of
104,697,837 shares (including "Votes Withheld") and that the number
of proxy votes lodged for each Resolution were as follows:
Ordinary Resolutions Votes For (inc. Votes Against Votes Withheld Total Votes
discretionary) (excluding
Votes Withheld)
(1)
That the Annual Report and Financial
Statements for the year ended
30 September 2018, including
the Directors' Report and the
Independent Auditor's Report
1. be received. 104,694,195 0 3,642 104,694,195
That the Directors' Remuneration
Report for the year ended 30
2. September 2018 be approved. 104,651,784 33,161 12,892 104,684,945
To approve a final dividend
for the year ended 30 September
2018 of 3.1 pence per ordinary
3. share. 104,694,195 0 3,642 104,694,195
That Mr Devine be re-elected
4. as a director. 104,689,807 235 7,795 104,690,042
That Ms McComb be re-elected
5. as a director. 104,690,042 0 7,795 104,690,042
That Ms Seymour-Williams be
6. re-elected as a director. 104,690,042 0 7,795 104,690,042
That Mr Thomson be re-elected
7. as a director. 104,689,807 235 7,795 104,690,042
That Mr Bond be elected as a
8. director. 104,685,770 0 12,067 104,685,770
That BDO LLP be appointed as
Independent Auditor of the Company
to hold office until the conclusion
of next general meeting at which
accounts are laid before the
9. Company. 104,689,874 4,321 3,642 104,694,195
That the directors be authorised
to fix the remuneration of the
Independent Auditor for the
10. year to 30 September 2019. 104,685,456 8,739 3,642 104,694,195
That the aggregate fees paid
to the directors for their services
as directors of the Company
shall not exceed GBP350,000
11. per annum. 104,646,055 39,169 12,613 104,685,224
That the directors be authorised
to allot shares in the Company
up to an aggregate nominal amount
12. of GBP102,395. 104,683,280 7,915 6,642 104,691,195
Special Resolutions
That the directors be authorised
to allot equity securities for
cash in accordance with section
570 of the Companies Act 2006
(disapplication of pre-emption
13. rights). 104,673,804 17,391 6,642 104,691,195
That the Company be authorised
to buy-back shares of up to
14.99% of the Company's issued
ordinary share capital.
14. Ordinary Resolution 102,409,160 2,285,035 3,642 104,694,195
That, the proposed investment
objective and policy set out
on pages 38 and 39 of the Annual
Report and Financial Statements
for the year 30 September 2018
be and are hereby adopted as
the investment objective and
policy of the Company to the
exclusion of all previous investment
objectives and policies of the
15. Company. 26,588,165 15,869 78,093,803 26,604,034
PASSING OF RESOLUTIONS AT THE AGM OF THE COMPANY
A copy of the AGM resolutions which require to be lodged with
the UKLA have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism
(NSM) and will shortly be available for inspection at
http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM(2) .
Maven Capital Partners UK LLP, Company Secretary
22 January 2019
(1) A "Vote Withheld" is not a vote in law and accordingly has
not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes
for and against the resolutions.
(2) Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the
content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites
(or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into,
or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.
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