Rathbone Brothers PLC : Result of AGM

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RATHBONE BROTHERS PLC ('Rathbones')
RESULTS OF THE 2014 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
NOTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LISTING RULE 9.6.18

At the forty-third Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 1 Curzon Street, London, W1J 5FB on Wednesday 14 May 2014, all the resolutions proposed (which were contained in the Notice of Meeting dated 8 April 2014) were passed on a poll.

Resolutions 1 to 16 were ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 19 were special resolutions. Resolution 20 was proposed as a shareholder resolution requiring a vote in favour of at least 66% of voting rights represented (assuming at least 50% of total voting rights are represented at the meeting which was the case).

The full text of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, a copy of which is on the Company's website at http://www.rathbones.com/investor-relations/governance. A copy has also been made available for inspection through the National Storage Mechanism which can be found at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

The results of the poll were as follows:

  Resolution For % Against % Votes cast Votes cast as a % of the voting capital Withheld
1 To adopt the report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2013 33,893,937 100.00% - 0.00% 33,893,937 71.15% 300,499
2 To approve the directors' remuneration report for the year ended 31 December 2013 28,169,631 84.21% 5,281,939 15.79% 33,451,570 70.22% 742,866
3 To approve the directors' remuneration policy 28,377,124 95.67% 1,283,037 4.33% 29,660,161 62.26% 4,534,275
4 To declare a final dividend of 31p per share for the year ended 31 December 2013 34,118,157 100.00% 197 0.00% 34,118,354 71.62% 76,082
5 To re-elect Paul Chavasse as a director 34,111,838 99.99% 4,280 0.01% 34,116,118 71.61% 78,318
6 To re-elect Oliver Corbett as a director 34,041,091 99.99% 5,048 0.01% 34,046,139 71.47% 148,297
7 To elect James Dean as a director 34,037,883 99.98% 8,256 0.02% 34,046,139 71.47% 148,297
8 To re-elect David Harrel as a director 34,094,181 99.93% 24,173 0.07% 34,118,354 71.62% 76,082
9 To elect Philip Howell as a director 33,156,819 97.18% 961,535 2.82% 34,118,354 71.62% 76,082
10 To re-elect Kathryn Matthews as a director 34,113,999 99.99% 4,355 0.01% 34,118,354 71.62% 76,082
11 To re-elect Mark Nicholls as a director 34,106,357 99.97% 10,155 0.03% 34,116,512 71.61% 77,924
12 To re-elect Paul Stockton as a director 34,113,873 99.99% 4,481 0.01% 34,118,354 71.62% 76,082
13 To appoint KPMG LLP as auditors of the Company 33,866,190 99.26% 251,755 0.74% 34,117,945 71.62% 76,491
14 To authorise the directors to agree the remuneration of the auditors 34,115,848 100.00% - 0.00% 34,115,848 71.61% 78,588
15 To approve an authority to make political donations and to incur political expenditure 34,098,203 99.96% 14,137 0.04% 34,112,340 71.60% 82,096
16 To approve a general authority to allot ordinary shares 32,218,196 94.43% 1,899,642 5.57% 34,117,838 71.62% 76,598
17 To authorise the disapplication of pre-emption rights 32,139,942 99.75% 81,682 0.25% 32,221,624 67.64% 1,972,812
18 To authorise market purchases of ordinary shares 34,115,530 99.99% 2,674 0.01% 34,118,204 71.62% 76,232
19 To authorise the convening of a general meeting (other than the AGM) or not less than 14 days' notice 33,580,781 98.42% 537,573 1.58% 34,118,354 71.62% 76,082
20 To allow the payment of variable remuneration of up to 200% of fixed remuneration 33,671,736 99.74% 86,798 0.26% 33,758,534 70.86% 203,225

For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes cast are expressed as a percentage of 47,639,806 ordinary shares.  A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.  In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed at today's AGM will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism.

Richard Loader
Company Secretary

Tel: 020 7399 0000