IG Group Holdings plc Result of AGM (4582R)

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IG Group Holdings plc

21 September 2017

IG Group Holdings plc

21 September 2017

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

The Board of IG Group Holdings plc (the "Company"), a global leader in online trading, is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, all the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were duly passed. A poll was conducted on each resolution proposed at the Meeting. The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions and the number of votes withheld were as follows:

 
           RESOLUTIONS               VOTES        %        VOTES       %        VOTES         Votes          VOTES 
                                      FOR                  AGAINST              TOTAL         cast as       WITHHELD* 
                                                                                            % of Issued 
                                                                                               Share 
                                                                                              Capital 
-------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
       To receive the accounts 
       for the 
       year ended 31 May 2017 
       and accompanying 
 1.    reports                    307,129,357    99.99       28,355   0.01   307,157,712         83.49%         22,592 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
       To approve the 
       Directors' Remuneration 
 2.    Report                     299,577,514    97.53    7,597,984   2.47   307,175,498         83.50%          4,806 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
       To approve the 
       Directors' Remuneration 
 3.    Policy                     289,325,839    96.46   10,631,334   3.54   299,957,173         81.53%      7,223,131 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
       To declare a final 
       dividend of 
 4.    22.88 pence per share      307,179,225   100.00            0   0.00   307,179,225         83.50%          1,079 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect Andy Green 
 5.    as a Director              306,075,385    99.65    1,088,294   0.35   307,163,679         83.49%         16,625 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect Peter 
       Hetherington 
 6.    as a Director              306,596,489    99.81      580,439   0.19   307,176,928         83.50%          3,376 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect Paul 
       Mainwaring as 
 7.    a Director                 306,515,698    99.78      662,318   0.22   307,178,016         83.50%          2,288 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect June Felix 
 8.    as a Director              306,598,212    99.81      579,804   0.19   307,178,016         83.50%          2,288 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect Stephen Hill 
 9.    as a Director              306,460,984    99.77      717,032   0.23   307,178,016         83.50%          2,288 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect Malcolm Le 
       May as a 
 10.   Director                   303,504,293    98.80    3,673,723   1.20   307,178,016         83.50%          2,288 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect Jim Newman 
 11.   as a Director              299,410,094    99.73      809,930   0.27   300,220,024         81.61%      6,960,280 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
       To re-elect Sam Tymms as 
 12.   a Director                 306,508,563    99.78      669,453   0.22   307,178,016         83.50%          2,288 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
       To re-appoint 
       PricewaterhouseCoopers 
       LLP as auditors of the 
 13.   Company                    298,603,781    97.21    8,574,423   2.79   307,178,204         83.50%          2,100 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ------------- 
 14.   To authorise the Audit     305,520,106    99.46    1,657,258   0.54   307,177,364         83.50%        2,940 
       Committee 
       of the Board to 
       determine the auditors' 
       remuneration 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To authorise the 
       Directors to allot 
 15.   shares                     297,562,123    96.87    9,614,383   3.13   307,176,506         83.50%        3,798 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To disapply the 
       statutory pre-emption 
       rights attaching to 
 16.   shares                     304,363,212   100.00       10,745   0.00   304,373,957         82.74%    2,806,347 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To disapply the 
       statutory pre-emption 
       rights attaching to 
       shares for 
       the purposes of 
       acquisitions or 
       other capital 
 17.   investments                282,798,058    92.91   21,575,899   7.09   304,373,957         82.74%    2,806,347 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To authorise the Company 
       to make 
       market purchases of its 
 18.   own shares                 299,478,946    97.55    7,508,715   2.45   306,987,661         83.45%      192,643 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       That a general meeting 
       (other than 
       an AGM) may be called on 
       not less 
       than 14 clear days' 
 19.   notice                     300,254,760    97.75    6,925,323   2.25   307,180,083         83.50%          221 
----  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
 

*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes cast "For" or "Against" a resolution.

As at 6.00pm on Monday 19 September 2017, the time by which shareholders who wanted to attend, speak and vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, there were 367,889,455 ordinary shares in issue. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

For further information, please contact:

IG Group

   Liz Scorer                                             020 7573 0026 / 0727 

[e-mail]

FTI Consulting

   Neil Doyle / Ed Berry                     020 3727 1141 / 1046 

About IG

IG empowers informed, decisive, adventurous people to access opportunities in over 15,000 financial markets. With a strong focus on innovation and technology, the company puts client needs at the heart of everything it does.

IG's vision is to be a global leader in retail trading and investments. Established in 1974 as the world's first financial spread betting firm, it continued leading the way by launching the world's first online and iPhone trading services.

IG is now an award-winning, multi-platform trading company, the world's No.1 provider of CFDs* and a global leader in forex. It provides leveraged services with the option of limited-risk guarantees, and offers an execution-only share dealing service in the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, Austria and the Netherlands. IG has recently launched a range of affordable, fully managed investment portfolios, to provide a comprehensive offering to investors and active traders.

It is a member of the FTSE 250, with offices across Europe, including a Swiss bank, Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and the US, where it offers on-exchange limited risk derivatives via the Nadex brand.

*Based on revenue excluding FX (from published financial statements, October 2016)

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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