At SEB's Annual General Meeting (AGM) this Friday the board members
Annika Falkengren, Penny Hughes, Urban Jansson, Tuve Johannesson,
Hans-Joachim Körber, Christine Novakovic, Jesper Ovesen, Carl Wilhelm
Ros, Jacob Wallenberg and Marcus Wallenberg were re-elected. Tomas
Nicolin was elected as new member of the Board. The AGM re-elected
Marcus Wallenberg as Chairman of the Board.
At the statutory Board Meeting following the AGM, Jacob Wallenberg
and Tuve Johannesson were appointed Deputy Chairmen.
Following an initiative taken by SEB's Board of Directors on a 25 per
cent reduction of base remuneration, the AGM resolved on Directors'
fees of SEK 7,587,500 to be distributed as follows: SEK 2,062,500 to
the Chairman of the Board and SEK 3,525,000 to the other Directors
elected by the AGM with SEK 450,000 each to the Deputy Chairmen and
SEK 375,000 each to other board members.
For committee work, the AGM resolved a total fee of SEK 2,000,000
split between SEK 510,000 to the Chairman and SEK 325,000 to the
other member of the Risk and Capital Committee and SEK 387,500 each
to the Chairmen and SEK 195,000 each to other members of the Audit
and Compliance Committee and the Remuneration and Human Resources
Committee. No fee for committee work is distributed to the Chairman
of the Board.
No dividend will be distributed for 2008.
The AGM approved the Board's resolution regarding a capital increase,
including the proposal regarding amendments to the Articles of
Association. Further information about the capital increase will be
distributed separately to shareholders.
The AGM approved the Board's proposal for new principles for
remuneration to the President and the other members of the Group
Executive Committee. This means that the President and other members
of the Group Executive Committee will not receive short-term
incentives. The AGM also approved the Board's proposal for new
share-based long-term incentive programmes for 2009 in the form of a
share savings programme, a performance share programme and a share
matching programme.
The AGM also decided on the acquisition and sale of own shares for
securities business purposes, on the stock exchange for the long-term
incentive programmes and for capital management purposes as well as
sale to the participants under the long-term incentive programmes, in
accordance with the Board's proposal.
The decisions of the AGM can be read in full at www.sebgroup.com.
SEB is a North European financial group serving some 400,000
corporate customers and institutions and five million private
individuals. SEB offers universal banking services in Sweden, Germany
and the Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It also has
local presence in the other Nordic countries, Poland, Ukraine and
Russia and a global presence through its international network in
major financial centers. On 31 December 2008, the Group's total
assets amounted to SEK 2,511bn (~EUR 230bn) while its assets under
management totalled SEK 1,201bn (~EUR 110bn).The Group has about
22,000 employees. Read more about SEB at www.sebgroup.com.
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70 763 85 01
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70 745 91 38
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