Annual General Meeting

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

Annual General Meeting 2010

Our AGM was held at 2pm (UK time) on Friday 14 May 2010

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).


AGM guide 2010


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