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(Incorporated and registered in England and Wales under the number 01397169)
(Stock code: 2378)
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
HELD ON 13 MAY 2021
Prudential plc (the "Company") announces that at its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held earlier today, Resolutions 1 to 22 (inclusive) as ordinary resolutions together with Resolutions 23 to 26 (inclusive) as special resolutions, were duly passed and the results of the polls are as follows:
RESOLUTION | VOTES | % OF | VOTES | % OF | VOTES | TOTAL | VOTES | |
FOR | VOTES | AGAINST | VOTES | CAST IN | VOTES | WITHHELD | ||
CAST | CAST | TOTAL | CAST AS | |||||
A % OF | ||||||||
ISSUED | ||||||||
SHARE | ||||||||
CAPITAL | ||||||||
1 | To receive and consider | 2,006,316,171 | 99.98 | 366,321 | 0.02 | 2,006,682,492 | 76.72% | 4,503,485 |
the Accounts for the | ||||||||
financial year ended 31 | ||||||||
December 2020 together | ||||||||
with the Strategic Report, | ||||||||
Directors' Remuneration | ||||||||
Report, Directors' Report | ||||||||
and the Auditor's Report | ||||||||
on those Accounts | ||||||||
2 | To approve the Directors' | 1,881,362,121 | 94.71 | 104,979,307 | 5.29 | 1,986,341,428 | 75.94% | 24,844,708 |
Remuneration Report for | ||||||||
the year ended 31 | ||||||||
December 2020 | ||||||||
3 | To elect Chua Sock Koong | 2,010,312,824 | 99.97 | 550,330 | 0.03 | 2,010,863,154 | 76.88% | 317,180 |
as a Director | ||||||||
4 | To elect Ming Lu as a | 1,987,526,124 | 98.84 | 23,340,691 | 1.16 | 2,010,866,815 | 76.88% | 313,518 |
Director | ||||||||
5 | To elect Jeanette Wong as | 2,010,302,098 | 99.97 | 571,816 | 0.03 | 2,010,873,914 | 76.88% | 306,420 |
a Director | ||||||||
6 | To re-elect Shriti Vadera | 2,005,605,495 | 99.74 | 5,308,066 | 0.26 | 2,010,913,561 | 76.88% | 266,773 |
as a Director | ||||||||
7 | To re-elect Jeremy | 2,009,702,091 | 99.94 | 1,224,655 | 0.06 | 2,010,926,746 | 76.88% | 253,588 |
Anderson as a Director | ||||||||
8 | To re-elect Mark | 2,006,138,864 | 99.76 | 4,778,161 | 0.24 | 2,010,917,025 | 76.88% | 263,309 |
FitzPatrick as a Director | ||||||||
9 | To re-elect David Law as a | 1,969,979,203 | 98.89 | 22,212,511 | 1.11 | 1,992,191,714 | 76.17% | 18,988,620 |
Director | ||||||||
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10 | To re-elect Anthony | 1,873,485,478 | 93.65 | 126,941,741 | 6.35 | 2,000,427,219 | 76.48% | 10,753,114 |
Nightingale as a Director | ||||||||
11 | To re-elect Philip Remnant | 1,994,918,083 | 99.20 | 16,002,119 | 0.80 | 2,010,920,202 | 76.88% | 260,132 |
as a Director | ||||||||
12 | To re-elect Alice | 2,010,463,554 | 99.98 | 465,453 | 0.02 | 2,010,929,007 | 76.88% | 251,327 |
Schroeder as a Director | ||||||||
13 | To re-elect James Turner | 2,009,391,446 | 99.92 | 1,517,428 | 0.08 | 2,010,908,874 | 76.88% | 271,460 |
as a Director | ||||||||
14 | To re-elect Thomas | 1,994,210,332 | 99.17 | 16,721,453 | 0.83 | 2,010,931,785 | 76.88% | 248,549 |
Watjen as a Director | ||||||||
15 | To re-elect Michael Wells | 2,009,481,376 | 99.93 | 1,425,404 | 0.07 | 2,010,906,780 | 76.88% | 273,554 |
as a Director | ||||||||
16 | To re-elect Fields Wicker- | 1,995,090,258 | 99.21 | 15,835,165 | 0.79 | 2,010,925,423 | 76.88% | 254,911 |
Miurin as a Director | ||||||||
17 | To re-elect Amy Yip as a | 2,010,304,295 | 99.97 | 613,744 | 0.03 | 2,010,918,039 | 76.88% | 262,295 |
Director | ||||||||
18 | To re-appoint KPMG LLP | 1,916,315,266 | 95.84 | 83,220,190 | 4.16 | 1,999,535,456 | 76.45% | 11,653,006 |
as the Company's auditor | ||||||||
19 | To authorise the | 1,963,590,336 | 98.12 | 37,635,899 | 1.88 | 2,001,226,235 | 76.51% | 9,962,335 |
Company's Audit | ||||||||
Committee on behalf of | ||||||||
the Board to determine the | ||||||||
amount of the auditor's | ||||||||
remuneration | ||||||||
20 | To renew the authority to | 1,979,449,470 | 98.44 | 31,454,987 | 1.56 | 2,010,904,457 | 76.88% | 284,006 |
make political donations | ||||||||
21 | To renew the authority to | 1,984,750,939 | 98.69 | 26,274,740 | 1.31 | 2,011,025,679 | 76.89% | 162,784 |
allot ordinary shares | ||||||||
22 | To renew the extension of | 1,983,963,962 | 98.66 | 27,037,538 | 1.34 | 2,011,001,500 | 76.88% | 186,963 |
authority to allot ordinary | ||||||||
shares to include | ||||||||
repurchased shares | ||||||||
23 | To renew the authority for | 2,004,623,769 | 99.69 | 6,264,785 | 0.31 | 2,010,888,554 | 76.88% | 299,909 |
disapplication of pre- | ||||||||
emption rights | ||||||||
24 | To renew the additional | 1,966,085,927 | 97.77 | 44,870,798 | 2.23 | 2,010,956,725 | 76.88% | 231,737 |
authority for the | ||||||||
disapplication of pre- | ||||||||
emption rights for | ||||||||
purposes of acquisitions or | ||||||||
specified capital | ||||||||
investments | ||||||||
25 | To renew the authority for | 1,979,267,614 | 98.48 | 30,643,717 | 1.52 | 2,009,911,331 | 76.84% | 1,277,131 |
purchase of own shares | ||||||||
26 | To renew the authority in | 1,799,542,303 | 89.49 | 211,383,023 | 10.51 | 2,010,925,326 | 76.88% | 263,135 |
respect of notice for | ||||||||
general meetings | ||||||||
Kai Nargolwala did not stand for re-election as a Non-Executive Director of the Company, and retired from the Board with effect from the conclusion of the AGM.
As at 6.30pm (UK time) on 11 May 2021, the number of issued shares of the Company was 2,615,609,158 ordinary shares, which was the total number of shares entitling the holders to attend and vote for or against all the resolutions at the AGM. In accordance with the Company's Articles of Association, on a poll every member present in person or by proxy has one vote for every share held.
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There were no restrictions on shareholders to cast votes on any of the resolutions proposed at the AGM. Votes withheld are not votes in law and therefore have not been counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against a resolution. Equiniti Limited was appointed as the scrutineer for vote-taking at the AGM.
Pursuant to Listing Rule 9.6.2 of the UK Listing Rules, a copy of all resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed at the AGM on 13 May 2021, will shortly be available to view via the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Additional Information:
Prudential plc is an Asia-led portfolio of businesses focused on structural growth markets. The business helps people get the most out of life through life and health insurance and retirement and asset management solutions. Prudential plc has 17 million life customers in its Asia and Africa businesses and is listed on stock exchanges in London, Hong Kong, Singapore and New York. Prudential plc is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc. a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America, nor with The Prudential Assurance Company Limited, a subsidiary of M&G plc, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom.
Contact:
Sylvia Edwards, Deputy Group Secretary, +44 (0)20 3977 9214 Tom Clarkson, Company Secretary
By order of the Board
Prudential plc
Tom Clarkson
Company Secretary
13 May 2021, London
As at the date of this announcement, the Board of Directors of Prudential plc comprises:
Chair
Baroness Shriti Vinodkant Vadera
Executive Directors
Michael Andrew Wells (Group Chief Executive), Mark Thomas FitzPatrick CA and Stuart James Turner FCA FCSI FRM
Independent Non-executive Directors
Jeremy David Bruce Anderson CBE, Chua Sock Koong CFA, David John Alexander Law ACA, Ming Lu, Anthony John Liddell Nightingale CMG SBS JP, The Hon. Philip John Remnant CBE FCA,
Alice Davey Schroeder, Thomas Ros Watjen, Jane Fields Wicker-MiurinOBE, Jeanette Kai Yuan Wong and Yok Tak Amy Yip
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