IG Group Holdings plc Result of Annual General Meeting (4406B)

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IG Group Holdings plc

20 September 2018

IG Group Holdings plc

20 September 2018

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

Results of 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       % of Issued       VOTES 
                                       FOR                 AGAINST              TOTAL       Share Capital    WITHHELD* 
                                                                                                Voted 
       To receive the accounts 
       for the 
       year ended 31 May 2018 
       and accompanying 
 1.    reports                     295,673,973   99.88      362,305   0.12   296,036,278           80.26%      263,807 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To approve the Directors' 
       Remuneration 
 2.    Report                      282,359,113   95.30   13,935,001   4.70   296,294,114           80.33%        5,971 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To declare a final 
       dividend of 
 3.    33.51 pence per share       295,929,226   99.87      370,860   0.13   296,300,086           80.33%            0 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Andy Green as 
 4.    a Director                  293,919,061   99.20    2,378,556   0.80   296,297,617           80.33%        2,468 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Peter 
       Hetherington 
 5.    as a Director               294,297,518   99.32    2,000,100   0.68   296,297,618           80.33%        2,468 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Paul 
       Mainwaring as 
 6.    a Director                  292,578,054   98.74    3,719,564   1.26   296,297,618           80.33%        2,468 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Malcolm Le 
       May as 
 7.    a Director                  290,053,095   97.89    6,241,013   2.11   296,294,108           80.33%        5,977 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect June Felix as 
 8.    a Director                  294,834,687   99.51    1,458,460   0.49   296,293,147           80.33%        6,939 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Stephen Hill 
       as a 
 9.    Director                    294,495,628   99.39    1,797,519   0.61   296,293,147           80.33%        6,939 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Jim Newman as 
 10.   a Director                  294,264,196   99.32    2,028,951   0.68   296,293,147           80.33%        6,939 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Sam Tymms as 
 11.   a Director                  293,392,139   99.02    2,901,007   0.98   296,293,146           80.33%        6,939 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To elect Bridget Messer 
 12.   as a Director               293,697,240   99.12    2,600,378   0.88   296,297,618           80.33%        2,468 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To elect Jon Noble as a 
 13.   Director                    293,553,571   99.07    2,744,047   0.93   296,297,618           80.33%        2,468 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To re-appoint 
       PricewaterhouseCoopers 
       LLP as auditors of the 
 14.   Company                     293,908,084   99.19    2,388,248   0.81   296,296,332           80.33%        3,753 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To authorise the Audit 
       Committee 
       of the Board to determine 
       the 
 15.   auditors' remuneration      294,429,734   99.37    1,869,399   0.63   296,299,133           80.33%          953 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To authorise the 
       Directors to 
 16.   allot shares                280,577,964   94.70   15,716,227   5.30   296,294,191           80.33%        5,895 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To disapply the statutory 
       pre-emption 
       rights attaching to 
 17.   shares                      295,169,626   99.99       17,389   0.01   295,187,015           80.03%    1,113,071 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To disapply the statutory 
       pre-emption 
       rights attaching to 
       shares for 
       the purposes of 
       acquisitions or 
 18.   other capital investments   266,608,552   90.32   28,578,702   9.68   295,187,254           80.03%    1,112,831 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       To authorise the Company 
       to make 
       market purchases of its 
 19.   own shares                  294,253,373   99.39    1,806,760   0.61   296,060,133           80.27%      239,952 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
       That a general meeting 
       (other 
       than an AGM) may be 
       called on 
       not less than 14 clear 
 20.   days' notice                272,896,889   92.10   23,398,412   7.90   296,295,301           80.33%        4,785 
      --------------------------  ------------  ------  -----------  -----  ------------  ---------------  ----------- 
 

*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 Tuesday 18 September 2018, 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 368,844,455 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 derivatives firm, it continued leading the way by launching the world's first online and iPhone trading services.

IG is 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 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, February 2018)

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