Annual General Meeting 2026
Our AGM was held in Edinburgh on Wednesday 29 April 2026 at 2pm (UK time). You can find the results of how our shareholders voted below.
The resolutions
| For | % For | Against | Total Votes Validly Cast | Votes Withheld | |
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Resolution 1: To receive and consider the Annual report and accounts 2025 |
786,153,234 | 99.94 | 441,556 | 786,594,790 | 4,515,363 |
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Resolution 2: To declare a final dividend for 2025 |
790,457,610 | 99.95 | 433,826 | 790,891,436 | 218,717 |
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Resolution 3: To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditors |
789,561,879 | 99.86 | 1,093,052 | 790,654,931 | 455,222 |
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Resolution 4: To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to set the auditors’ fees |
789,665,119 | 99.87 | 1,054,390 | 790,719,509 | 385,937 |
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Resolution 5: To approve the Directors’ remuneration report, excluding the remuneration policy |
780,299,944 | 98.71 | 10,232,982 | 790,532,926 | 577,227 |
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Resolution 6: To approve the Directors’ remuneration policy |
619,187,424 | 78.36 | 171,019,302 | 790,206,726 | 903,427 |
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Resolution 7: To approve the amendments to the Aberdeen Group plc Executive Long Term Incentive Plan |
729,133,048 | 92.25 | 61,235,360 | 790,368,408 | 741,745 |
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Resolution 8A: To re-elect Vivek Ahuja as a Director |
778,508,729 | 98.49 | 11,928,461 | 790,437,190 | 672,963 |
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Resolution 8B: To re-elect Jonathan Asquith as a Director |
773,383,989 | 97.84 | 17,085,914 | 790,469,903 | 640,250 |
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Resolution 8C: To re-elect Katie Bickerstaffe as a Director |
662,448,626 | 83.81 | 127,992,152 | 790,440,778 | 669,375 |
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Resolution 8D: To re-elect John Devine as a Director |
644,247,516 | 96.95 | 20,272,945 | 664,520,461 | 126,589,692 |
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Resolution 8E: To re-elect Hannah Grove as a Director |
767,080,822 | 98.08 | 14,981,732 | 782,062,554 | 9,047,599 |
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Resolution 8F: To re-elect Cathleen Raffaeli as a Director |
789,305,582 | 99.85 | 1,149,331 | 790,454,913 | 655,240 |
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Resolution 8G: To re-elect Jason Windsor as a Director |
789,112,263 | 99.83 | 1,347,332 | 790,459,595 | 650,558 |
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Resolution 9: To elect Siobhan Boylan as a Director |
788,573,713 | 99.77 | 1,857,035 | 790,430,748 | 679,405 |
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Resolution 10: To provide limited authority to the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and to incur political expenditure |
658,988,380 | 99.13 | 5,777,752 | 664,766,132 | 126,344,021 |
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Resolution 11: To authorise the Directors to issue further shares |
788,490,848 | 99.72 | 2,179,333 | 790,670,181 | 434,828 |
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Resolution 12 (Special): To disapply share pre-emption rights |
661,776,940 | 83.72 | 128,699,341 | 790,476,281 | 633,872 |
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Resolution 13 (Special): To give authority for the Company to buy back shares up to 5% of its issued ordinary shares |
789,429,893 | 99.87 | 1,063,484 | 790,493,377 | 616,776 |
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Resolution 14: To authorise the Directors to allot shares in relation to the issuance of Convertible Bonds |
662,668,982 | 83.82 | 127,881,009 | 790,549,991 | 560,162 |
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Resolution 15 (Special): To disapply pre-emption rights in respect of allotments of equity securities in relation to the issuance of Convertible Bonds |
658,000,906 | 83.25 | 132,413,057 | 790,413,963 | 696,190 |
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Resolution 16 (Special): To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 clear days’ notice |
769,020,492 | 97.25 | 21,739,294 | 790,759,786 | 345,026 |
Issued Share Capital – Total voting rights
On 27 February 2026 – the latest practical business day before the printing of the Notice of Annual General Meeting – the Company’s issued share capital consisted of 1,840,744,675 ordinary shares, carrying one vote each. No shares were held in treasury. Therefore, the total voting rights in the Company as at 27 February 2026 were 1,840,744,675.