Annual General Meeting

Our Annual General Meeting 2010. Find out the voting results from the 2010 Annual General Meeting. View results.

The 2010 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Standard Life plc was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, The Exchange, Morrison Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EE, Scotland on Friday 14 May 2010 at 2pm (UK time).

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The resolutions…

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

Resolution For Against Withheld

Resolution 1 - To receive and consider the Annual Report and Accounts for 2009

702,196,408

2,437,317

1,523,187

Resolution 2 - To approve the Directors' remuneration report

678,055,766

24,467,069

3,634,077

Resolution 3 - To declare a final dividend for 2009

705,246,794

382,560

526,833

Resolution 4 - To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors

691,625,434

4,876,891

9,654,587

Resolution 5 - To authorise the Directors to set the auditors' fees

701,499,109

3,098,782

1,558,296

Resolutions 6 -

A - to re-elect Mr Kent Atkinson

684,738,616

18,312,240

3,105,331

B - to re-elect Baroness McDonagh

696,518,649

6,493,730

3,143,808

B - to re-elect Mr David Nish

675,235,200

28,290,514

2,631,198

Resolutions 7 -

A - to elect Mr David Grigson

699,097,169

3,612,842

3,445,450

B - to elect Ms Sheelagh Whittaker

695,941,833

6,827,842

3,387,237

Resolution 8 - To authorise the Directors to issue further shares

684,132,984

20,146,646

1,877,282

Resolution 9 (Special resolution) - To disapply share pre-emption rights

693,217,070

9,028,928

3,910,914

Resolution 10 (Special resolution) - To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares

698,880,654

5,575,355

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

31,105,226

5,154,192

Resolution 12 (Special resolution) - To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days’ notice

643,756,603

55,945,676

6,452,331

Resolution 13 (Special resolution) - To adopt new articles of association

688,778,595

6,352,840

11,025,477

Resolution 14 - Approval of the Standard Life Investments Long-Term Incentive Plan

621,108,518

28,225,619

56,822,775

Read the full story on the London Stock Exchange's Regulatory News Service (RNS) issued on Friday 14 May 2010

The 2009 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Standard Life plc was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, The Exchange, Morrison Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EE, Scotland on Friday 15 May at 11am (UK time).

What happened at the meeting?

Shareholders were given the opportunity to vote on the resolutions, including the proposed final dividend payment for 2008.

The resolutions…

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

Resolution For Against Withheld

Resolution 1 - To receive and consider the Annual Report and Accounts for 2008

657,046,798

2,259,099

1,494,892

Resolution 2 - To approve the Directors' remuneration report

634,500,850

21,307,327

4,961,806

Resolution 3 - To declare a final dividend for 2008

657,824,348

2,324,872

649,244

Resolution 4 - To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors

646,926,097

4,698,055

9,181,332

Resolution 5 - To authorise the Directors to set the auditors' fees

655,206,264

3,486,068

2,071,146

Resolutions 6 -

A - To re-elect Crawford Gillies as a Director

651,489,580

5,376,323

3,929,460

B - To re-elect Gerry Grimstone as a Director

651,149,419

5,832,666

3,829,503

Resolution 7 - To authorise the Directors to issue further shares

648,546,809

10,017,211

2,164,570

Resolution 8 (Special resolution) - To disapply share pre-emption rights

646,956,887

8,607,626

5,230,905

Resolution 9 (Special resolution) - To give authority for the Company to buy back up to 10% of its issued ordinary shares

645,386,049

13,237,206

2,114,539

Resolution 10 - To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure

622,466,867

33,287,952

4,852,636

Resolution 11 (Special resolution) - To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 days’ notice

643,384,720

15,245,704

2,160,491

Resolution 12 - To authorise the offer of a Scrip dividend scheme

652,652,063

5,785,102

2,322,918

Resolution 13 (Special resolution) - To make changes to the Company’s articles of association in connection with the proposed Scrip dividend scheme

651,306,771

5,753,826

2,715,862

The total number of shares in issue is 2,180,852,000 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.

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