RIT Capital Partners PLC Result of AGM (5696D)

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RNS Number : 5696D

RIT Capital Partners PLC

27 April 2017

RIT Capital Partners plc

27 April 2017

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Annual General Meeting of RIT Capital Partners plc was held on Thursday 27 April 2017.

All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 27 March 2017 were passed, and prints of the items of special business passed will shortly be available for inspection on the National Storage Mechanism.

The proxy votes cast on each resolution were as follows:

 
                                                FOR/                         VOTES 
RESOLUTION                                       DISCRETIONARY  AGAINST       WITHHELD 
---------------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
ORDINARY BUSINESS: 
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     Approval of the Directors' 
      Report and Accounts for 
      the year ended 31 December 
1.    2016                                       58,745,335        286,523      1,286 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     Approval of the Directors' 
      Remuneration Report for 
      the year ended 31 December 
2.    2016                                      58,029,286       916,184      87,672 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     Approval of the Directors' 
3.    Remuneration Policy                       55,264,637       3,678,080    89,878 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     Re-election of Lord Rothschild 
4.    as a Director                             51,822,076       939,399      6,271,668 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     Re-election of John Cornish 
5.    as a Director                             58,159,412       831,906      41,826 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     Re-election of Jean Laurent-Bellue 
6.    as a Director                             58,066,315       925,003      41,826 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     Re-election of Michael 
7.    Marks as a Director                       42,678,173       10,204,322   6,150,649 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     Re-election of Mike Power 
8.    as a Director                             58,952,800       19,288       61,057 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     Re-election of Hannah 
9.    Rothschild as a Director                  58,126,184       899,916      7,044 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     Election of Amy Stirling 
10.   as a Director                             59,004,020       1,974        27,151 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     Re-election of The Duke 
11.   of Wellington as a Director               58,403,383       586,749      43,012 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     Re-election of Mike Wilson 
12.   as a Director                             58,967,214       24,381       41,550 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     Re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers 
13.   LLP as auditors                           58,644,231       302,870      86,043 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     To authorise the Directors 
      to fix the remuneration 
14.   of the auditors                           58,958,651       55,253       19,241 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
SPECIAL BUSINESS: 
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     To renew the power to 
15.   allot equity securities                   58,987,917       31,318       13,910 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     To authorise the Directors 
      to allot equity securities 
16.   for cash.                                 58,965,052       49,319       18,774 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     To renew the authority 
      to repurchase up to 14.99 
      per cent. of the Company's 
17.   issued share capital                      58,999,380       24,738       9,027 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     To renew the Share Appreciation 
18.   Rights Plan                               55,184,757       3,229,925    618,462 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
     To change the notice period 
      for general meetings other 
      than annual general meetings 
19.   to 14 days                                58,335,849       687,365      9,930 
---  ----------------------------------------  ---------------  -----------  ---------- 
 

Resolutions 1 to 15 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 16 to 19 were passed as special resolutions.

Proxy votes in favour of the Chairman of the Annual General Meeting to be cast at his discretion represented between 0.20% and 0.24% of all votes cast on the above resolutions.

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