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Rathbone Brothers PLC
15 April 2020
Rathbone Brothers Plc ('the Company')
2019 Report and Accounts
Notice of 2020 Annual General Meeting
The Company today announces that its Annual Report and Accounts
for the year ended 31 December 2019 ("Annual Report"), Notice of
the 2020 Annual General Meeting ("AGM") and Form of Proxy for the
2020 AGM have been sent to shareholders. The Annual Report and AGM
Notice are available to view on the Company's website at:
www.rathbones.com
In compliance with LR 9.6.1 of the UK Financial Conduct
Authority, the Company has today submitted electronic copies of the
following documents to the Financial Conduct Authority via the
National Storage Mechanism and these will shortly be available for
inspection at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
-- 2019 Annual Report and Accounts
-- Notice of the 2020 AGM
-- Form of Proxy for the 2020 AGM
AGM:
The Company's AGM is currently scheduled to be held at 2:00pm on
Thursday 7 May 2020 at 8 Finsbury Circus, London EC2M 7AZ.
COVID-19 update:
The board is closely monitoring the evolving Coronavirus
(COVID-19) situation and its immediate priorities remain the health
and wellbeing of our employees, shareholders, clients and the wider
community in which we operate. The Board has taken into
consideration the compulsory 'Stay at Home' measures that were
published by the UK Government on 23 March 2020 and it fully
supports these measure to protect public health and safety. In
order to comply with the Stay at Home Measures and to ensure the
safety of all our stakeholders, the board's current intention is to
hold a scaled-back AGM that meets our legal obligations and that
deals with the formal AGM business only.
As a result, if the Stay at Home Measures continue to be in
force on the date of our AGM, the board proposes that two directors
who are also shareholders will attend the meeting in person.
As the Stay at Home Measures prohibit public gatherings of more
than two people, shareholders will not be permitted to attend the
AGM in person if such measures continue to be in force.
Shareholders and guests who travel to the meeting will not be
admitted. It is, therefore, important that shareholders do not
attend the meeting in person while the Stay at Home Measures are in
place. The board recognises that the AGM is an important event for
all shareholders and is keen to ensure that they are able to
exercise their right to participate and vote notwithstanding the
possible restrictions on attendance in person. If shareholders wish
to participate in the AGM and the Stay at Home Measures are in
force, they should appoint the Chairman of the meeting as their
proxy and provide their voting instructions.
In addition, the board also intends to put in place a live
webcast for shareholders to listen to the AGM proceedings by
accessing the following weblink:
https://www.investis-live.com/rathbone-brothers/5e871b2d1176b691000c02a0/fjfj
Given that there will not be any formal Q&A session at the
meeting, shareholders can send any questions relating to the
business of the AGM in advance of the meeting to
CompanySecretariat@rathbones.com and we will ensure, to the extent
practicable, that answers are published on our website
https://www.rathbones.com/annual-general-meeting-2020
The Company will keep the Coronavirus situation under review and
recommend that shareholders continue to monitor the firm's website
and announcements for any updates in relation to our AGM.
Enquires:
Ali Johnson
Company Secretary
Email: CompanySecretariat@rathbones.com
Tel: 0207 399 0326
The Appendix below, together with the information included in
the Company's announcement of its preliminary results on 20
February 2020, constitutes the information required to comply with
DTR 6.3.5
Appendix
Directors' Responsibility Statement
The directors are responsible for preparing the report and
accounts 2019, comprising the consolidated financial statements of
Rathbone Brothers Plc and its subsidiaries (the 'group') and
holding company financial statements (the 'parent company') in
accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the directors to prepare group and parent
company financial statements for each financial year. Under that
law they are required to prepare the group financial statements in
accordance with IFRS as adopted by the EU and applicable law and
have elected to prepare the parent company financial statements on
the same basis.
Under company law, the directors must not approve the financial
statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair
view of the state of affairs of the group and parent company and of
their profit or loss for that period. In preparing each of the
group and parent company financial statements, the directors are
required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently
- make judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent
- state whether they have been prepared in accordance with IFRS as adopted by the EU
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis
unless it is inappropriate to presume that the group and the parent
company will continue in business.
The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting
records that are sufficient to show and explain the parent
company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any
time the financial position of the parent company and enable them
to ensure that its financial statements comply with the Companies
Act 2006. They have general responsibility for taking such steps as
are reasonably open to them to safeguard the assets of the group
and to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.
Under applicable law and regulations, the directors are also
responsible for preparing a strategic report, directors' report,
remuneration committee report and corporate governance statement
that comply with that law and those regulations.
The directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity
of the corporate and financial information included on the
company's website. Legislation in the UK governing the preparation
and dissemination of financial statements may differ from
legislation in other jurisdictions.
The directors who held office at the date of approval of the
directors' report confirm that, so far as they are each aware,
there is no relevant audit information of which the company's
auditors are unaware and each director has taken all the steps that
he or she ought to have taken as a director to make himself or
herself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish
that the company's auditor is aware of that information.
We confirm that to the best of our knowledge:
- the consolidated financial statements, prepared in accordance
with the applicable set of accounting standards, give a true and
fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit
of the parent company and the undertakings included in the
consolidation taken as a whole
- the strategic report and directors' report include a fair
review of the development and performance of the business and the
position of the issuer and the undertakings included in the
consolidation taken as a whole, together with a description of the
principal risks and uncertainties that they face
- the annual report and accounts, taken as a whole, is fair,
balanced and understandable and provides the information necessary
for shareholders to assess the group's position and performance,
business model and strategy.
By order of the board
Paul Stockton
Chief Executive
20 February 2020
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