9 May 2024
Jupiter Fund Management plc (the "Company")
Results of the Annual General Meeting
The Board announces that at the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the Company held today, 9 May 2024, at The Zig Zag Building, 70 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6SQ, all of the resolutions put before the meeting were passed by the requisite majorities.
The results of the AGM resolutions, all decided by way of poll, are set out below.
Resolutions | For | % of total votes for | Against | % of total votes against | Total votes | Votes withheld* |
1. To receive the reports of the Directors and auditors and the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2023 | 398,619,406 | 99.99% | 47,229 | 0.01% | 398,666,635 | 387,724 |
2. To approve the Annual Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 December 2023 | 383,120,004 | 96.53% | 13,786,053 | 3.47% | 396,906,057 | 2,148,302 |
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy | 371,052,602 | 93.28% | 26,737,044 | 6.72% | 397,789,646 | 1,264,713 |
4. To approve a final dividend of 3.4 pence for the year ended 31 December 2023 | 398,993,514 | 100.00% | 17,972 | 0.00% | 399,011,486 | 42,873 |
5. To elect Siobhan Boylan as a Director | 398,884,260 | 99.97% | 124,183 | 0.03% | 399,008,443 | 45,916 |
6. To re-elect Matthew Beesley as a Director | 398,647,845 | 99.92% | 332,272 | 0.08% | 398,980,117 | 74,242 |
7. To re-elect David Cruickshank as a Director | 385,796,188 | 96.71% | 13,104,266 | 3.29% | 398,900,454 | 153,905 |
8. To re-elect Wayne Mepham as a Director | 398,581,869 | 99.91% | 378,476 | 0.09% | 398,960,345 | 94,014 |
9. To re-elect Dale Murray as a Director | 395,844,554 | 99.21% | 3,164,695 | 0.79% | 399,009,249 | 45,110 |
10. To re-elect Suzy Neubert as a Director | 395,974,243 | 99.24% | 3,033,353 | 0.76% | 399,007,596 | 46,763 |
11. To re-elect Karl Sternberg as a Director | 286,829,456 | 96.49% | 10,422,009 | 3.51% | 297,251,465 | 101,802,894 |
12. To re-elect Roger Yates as a Director | 272,896,148 | 91.80% | 24,367,698 | 8.20% | 297,263,846 | 101,790,513 |
13. To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's auditors | 397,663,841 | 99.66% | 1,349,170 | 0.34% | 399,013,011 | 41,348 |
14. To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to set the remuneration of the auditors | 398,750,758 | 99.93% | 287,874 | 0.07% | 399,038,632 | 15,727 |
15. To authorise the Directors to allot shares in the Company | 398,455,136 | 99.86% | 560,626 | 0.14% | 399,015,762 | 38,597 |
16. To authorise the Company to make political donations | 390,668,187 | 97.92% | 8,313,689 | 2.08% | 398,981,876 | 72,483 |
17. To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights | 398,665,165 | 99.92% | 314,578 | 0.08% | 398,979,743 | 74,616 |
18. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 397,434,476 | 99.65% | 1,386,253 | 0.35% | 398,820,729 | 233,630 |
19. To approve general meetings (other than annual general meetings) of the Company being called on 14 clear days' notice | 394,243,779 | 98.80% | 4,790,897 | 1.20% | 399,034,676 | 19,683 |
*Please note that 'vote withheld' is not a vote under English law and is not counted in the calculation of votes 'for' or 'against' a resolution, or in the 'votes cast as a percentage of issued share capital'.
The issued share capital of the Company comprises 544,979,510 shares and votes cast as a percentage of the issued share capital amounted to 73.2%. Resolutions 17, 18 and 19 were passed as special resolutions.
The Company has sent copies of the resolutions passed at the AGM, other than those concerning ordinary business, to the FCA's National Storage Mechanism and they are available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
The results of the AGM will be available shortly on the Company's website at https://www.jupiteram.com/investor-relations/
For further information please contact:
| Investors | Media |
Jupiter | Helen Archbold +44 (0)20 3817 1609
| Victoria Howley +44 (0)20 3817 1657 |
Edelman Smithfield | | Andrew Wilde +44 (0)7786 022 022 |
Jupiter Fund Management plc
LEI Number: 5493003DJ1G01IMQ7S28
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