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IG Group Holdings plc

21 September 2016

IG Group Holdings plc

21 September 2016

Result of Annual General Meeting ("AGM")

The Board of IG Group Holdings plc (the "Company"), a global leader in online trading, is pleased to announce that at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held earlier today, all the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were duly passed. A poll was conducted on each resolution proposed at the Meeting. The number of votes for and against each of the resolutions and the number of votes withheld were as follows:

 
            RESOLUTIONS                VOTES        %        VOTES       %        VOTES         Votes         VOTES 
                                        FOR                  AGAINST              TOTAL         cast as      WITHHELD* 
                                                                                              % of Issued 
                                                                                                 Share 
                                                                                                Capital 
---------------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To receive the accounts 
       for the 
       year ended 31 May 2016 and 
       accompanying 
 1.    reports                      300,892,545    99.94      180,969   0.06   301,073,514         82.04%       23,825 
----  ---------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To approve the Directors' 
       Remuneration 
 2.    Report                       278,197,945    97.20    8,001,015   2.80   286,198,960         77.99%   14,898,379 
----  ---------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To declare a final 
       dividend of 
 3.    22.95 pence per share        301,097,339   100.00            0   0.00   301,097,339         82.05%            0 
----  ---------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Andy Green as 
 4.    a Director                   299,470,888    99.77      700,792   0.23   300,171,680         81.79%      925,659 
----  ---------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Peter 
       Hetherington 
 5.    as a Director                300,891,867    99.93      201,047   0.07   301,092,914         82.05%        4,425 
----  ---------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect June Felix as 
 6.    a Director                   300,918,760    99.94      173,534   0.06   301,092,294         82.05%        5,045 
----  ---------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Stephen Hill 
 7.    as a Director                300,795,606    99.90      296,704   0.10   301,092,310         82.05%        5,029 
----  ---------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Malcolm Le May 
       as a 
 8.    Director                     300,601,177    99.84      491,117   0.16   301,092,294         82.05%        5,045 
----  ---------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Jim Newman as 
 9.    a Director                   300,532,548    99.82      547,975   0.18   301,080,523         82.04%       16,816 
----  ---------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To re-elect Sam Tymms as a 
 10.   Director                     300,446,943    99.78      649,776   0.22   301,096,719         82.05%          620 
----  ---------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To elect Paul Mainwaring 
 11.   as a Director                300,548,211    99.82      548,508   0.18   301,096,719         82.05%          620 
----  ---------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
       To re-appoint 
       PricewaterhouseCoopers 
       LLP as auditors of the 
 12.   Company                      296,181,749    98.37    4,910,716   1.63   301,092,465         82.05%        4,874 
----  ---------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
 13.     To authorise the Audit     298,659,997    99.19    2,437,142   0.81   301,097,139         82.05%          200 
         Committee 
         of the Board to 
         determine the auditors' 
         remuneration 
------  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
         To authorise the 
         Directors to allot 
 14.     shares                     284,853,974    94.61   16,243,364   5.39   301,097,338         82.05%            0 
------  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
         To disapply the 
         statutory pre-emption 
         rights attaching to 
 15.     shares                     293,120,619    99.96      108,048   0.04   293,228,667         79.90%    7,868,672 
------  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
         To disapply the 
         statutory pre-emption 
         rights attaching to 
         shares for 
         the purposes of 
         acquisitions or 
         other capital 
 16.     investments                275,623,218    94.00   17,605,449   6.00   293,228,667         79.90%    7,868,672 
------  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
         To authorise the Company 
         to make 
         market purchases of its 
 17.     own shares                 298,194,663    99.04    2,900,288   0.96   301,094,951         82.05%        2,388 
------  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
         That a general meeting 
         (other than 
         an AGM) may be called on 
         not less 
         than 14 clear days' 
 18.     notice                     280,568,349    93.18   20,527,290   6.82   301,095,639         82.05%        1,700 
------  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
         To adopt new Articles of 
 19.     Association                297,846,875    99.95      162,840   0.05   298,009,715         81.21%    3,087,624 
------  -------------------------  ------------  -------  -----------  -----  ------------  -------------  ----------- 
 
 

*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes cast "For" or "Against" a resolution.

As at 6.00pm on Monday 19 September 2016, the time by which shareholders who wanted to attend, speak and vote at the AGM must have been entered on the Company's register of members, there were 366,981,583 ordinary shares in issue. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM

For further information, please contact:

IG Group

Kieran McKinney

   Head of Investor Relations   020 7573 0026 

FTI Consulting

Neil Doyle / Ed Berry 020 3727 1141 / 1046

IG is a global leader in online trading, providing fast and flexible access to over 10,000 financial markets - including shares, indices, forex, commodities and binaries.

Established in 1974 as the world's first financial spread betting firm, IG's aim is to become the default choice for active traders globally. It is an award-winning multi-platform trading company, the world's No.1 provider of CFDs* and a global leader in forex, and it now offers an execution-only stockbroking service in the UK, Australia, Ireland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.

It is a member of the FTSE 250, with offices across Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and the US, where it offers limited risk derivatives contracts via the Nadex brand.

*Based on revenue excluding FX, published financial statements, September 2015.

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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