Standard Life Private Equity Trust plc (the 'Company') hereby gives notification that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, Monday, 24 February 2020, all the Resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting included within the Annual Report and available on the Company's website,www.slpet.co.uk* were duly passed on a show of hands.
The total number of proxy votes lodged for the Annual General Meeting were as follows:
For and Discretionary
Against
Votes
Total Votes
Resolution
Number
No. of
Votes
% of
Votes Cast
No. of
Votes
% of
Votes Cast
Withheld
(excluding Votes Withheld)
1. Receive Report & Accounts
109,513,810
100.00
0
0.00
0
109,513,810
2. Approve Directors' Remuneration Report
109,466,644
99.98
17,889
0.02
29,277
109,484,533
3. Approve Directors' Remuneration Policy
109,461,224
99.98
21,799
0.02
30,787
109,483,023
4. Approve Company's Dividend Policy
109,510,339
100.00
3,471
0.00
0
109,513,810
5. Re-elect Mr Bond
109,484,994
100.00
1,154
0.00
27,662
109,486,148
6. Re-elect Mr Devine
109,489,431
100.00
989
0.00
23,390
109,490,420
7. Re-elect Ms McComb
109,489,360
100.00
1,060
0.00
23,390
109,490,420
8. Re-elect Ms Seymour-Williams
109,489,360
100.00
1,060
0.00
23,390
109,490,420
9. Re-elect Mr Thomson
109,489,501
100.00
885
0.00
23,424
109,490,386
10. Re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor
109,480,561
99.98
23,103
0.02
10,146
109,503,664
11. Remuneration of the Auditor
109,498,543
99.99
12,866
0.01
2,401
109,511,409
12. Allotment of new equity
109,476,457
99.98
19,686
0.02
17,667
109,496,143
13. Disapply pre-emption rights
107,099,172
97.82
2,390,883
2.18
23,754
109,490,055
14. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares
107,123,764
97.83
2,374,779
2.17
15,266
109,498,543
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:www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM*
*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.
For Standard Life Private Equity Trust plc
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC
Company Secretary
24 February 2020
Tel: 0131 372 2200
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