Standard Life Private Eqty Trst PLC Result of AGM (9462D)

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RNS Number : 9462D

Standard Life Private Eqty Trst PLC

24 February 2020

STANDARD LIFE PRIVATE EQUITY TRUST PLC

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 2138004MK7VPTZ99EV13

24 February 2020

Result of Annual General Meeting

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 
                                                     % of 
            Resolution                 No. of        Votes     No. of        % of                     (excluding 
              Number                    Votes         Cast      Votes      Votes Cast   Withheld    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: [phone]

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