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Polar Capital Global Financials Trust plc ("the Company")
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300G5SWN8EP2P4U41
Results of the 8th Annual General Meeting held at 11.00am on Tuesday 30 March 2021
AGM Results
All the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company were voted on and passed on a poll.
The following table indicates the number of proxy votes lodged in advance of the meeting for each of the resolutions. It should be noted that votes withheld do not constitute votes in law. The number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of the AGM was 202,775,000, excluding those shares held in treasury, the total voting rights amounted to 161,950,000 shares.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions 11 and 12, having been passed as special resolutions, will be submitted to Companies House, as well as the National Storage Mechanism, and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
All of the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting are set out in the AGM Notice of Meeting which is available on the Company's website at: www.polarcapitalglobalfinancialstrust.com.
Resolution | In favour (including votes at the Chairman's discretion) | Against | Withheld | |
No |
| Number of shares
| Number of shares | Number of shares |
1 | To receive the Annual Report and the Financial Statements for the year ended 30 November 2020
| 94,500,159
| 6,423
| 8,500
|
2 | To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Implementation Report
| 94,482,175
| 29,346
| 3,561
|
3 | To re-elect Robert Kyprianou as a Director
| 92,984,955
| 1,530,127
| 0
|
4 | To re-elect Joanne Elliott as a Director
| 92,986,449
| 1,528,633
| 0
|
5 | To re-elect Katrina Hart as a Director
| 92,986,449
| 1,528,633
| 0
|
6 | To re-elect Simon Cordery as a Director
| 92,984,955
| 1,530,127
| 0
|
7 | To approve the dividend policy
| 94,508,659
| 6,423
| 0
|
8 | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors
| 93,933,137
| 581,945
| 0
|
9 | To authorise the Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration
| 94,030,895
| 484,187
| 0
|
10 | To authorise the allotment of ordinary shares
| 94,493,461
| 21,621
| 0
|
11 | To disapply pre-emption rights
| 94,406,678
| 99,942
| 8,507
|
12 | To grant the Company the authority to buy back its own ordinary shares
| 94,415,648
| 99,434
| 0
|
Enquiries:
Tracey Lago, FCG
Polar Capital Global Financials Trust PLC
020 7227 2700
30 March 2021
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