Annual General Meeting 2026
Our AGM will take place in Edinburgh on Wednesday 29 April 2026 at 2pm (UK time). Shareholders can attend the meeting in person or can view it online.
You will be asked to consider and vote on a number of resolutions and they are listed in full on pages 4 to 6 of the Notice of Meeting. To help make things clearer, there is an explanation of each resolution from the Chairman on pages 7 to 11.
Read the Notice of Meeting 2026
Click here to view the meeting online
Questions
Shareholders who attend the meeting in person will have the opportunity to ask questions once the Chairman has opened the Question-and-Answer session. For shareholders unable to attend in person, you can submit a question in advance of the meeting up until 2pm on Monday 27 April 2026. To do so, please email agm@aberdeenplc.com
Please note: the webcast will not include a voting function nor allow for questions to be asked online during the meeting.
The Board will answer as many questions as is practical during the meeting.
How to vote on the resolutions
Voting online is the quickest and easiest way of making sure your vote is registered on time. To vote online you’ll need a Shareview account. If you haven’t registered for Shareview yet, go to shareview.co.uk and complete the registration process and vote. Please allow enough time to set up your account ahead of the voting deadline of 2pm (UK time) on Monday 27 April 2026.
If you have been sent a paper voting form, please complete and return this by following the instructions on the form. If you are unable to vote online, or did not receive a paper voting form but wish to vote this way, please contact our registrar Equiniti who will be able to assist.
Voting closes on Monday 27 April 2026 at 2pm (UK time).
Attending the meeting in person
- Venue: Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2LR
- Date: Wednesday 29 April 2026
- Time: 2pm - doors open 12.30pm (UK time)
Security
To help keep everyone safe, we will carry out security checks and bag searches on entry to the building. This will include the use of personal and x-ray scanners and any other security measures we consider appropriate on the day.
Please limit your belongings to one small bag. All other bags and personal items must be left in the cloakroom, including cameras and other recording devices as photography and recordings are not permitted. No one attending the meeting may bring disruptive items (leaflets, banners, flags, whistles), or other items that may present a threat to the security or good order of the meeting, into the premises. Food and drink, including water bottles, are also not permitted.
You will be required to put your mobile phone in a security pouch, which will allow you to use your phone but prevents filming or recording. Mobile phones must be turned off during the meeting. On leaving the meeting, the pouch will be unlocked and collected by our security team.
We will not permit behaviour which may interfere with anyone’s security, safety or comfort, or the good order of the meeting. Non-compliance with any of our security measures or disruptive behaviour may result in refusal of entry or removal from the meeting.
Sir Douglas Flint CBE
Chairman
“We made good progress in 2025 in building on the evident strengths within all three of our Wealth and Investment businesses. There was a standout performance from interactive investor, which delivered record annual growth in both customer numbers and fund inflows, leading its market segment in terms of net flows of growth.”
Sir Douglas Flint CBE
Chairman
The resolutions
Your Board recommends that you vote ‘for’ on all of this year’s resolutions.
| Resolution 1 | To receive and consider the Annual report and accounts 2025 |
| Resolution 2 | To declare a final dividend for 2025 |
| Resolution 3 | To re-appoint KPMG LLP as auditors |
| Resolution 4 | To authorise the Audit and Risk Committee to set the auditors’ fees |
| Resolution 5 | To approve the Directors’ remuneration report, excluding the remuneration policy |
| Resolution 6 | To approve the Directors’ remuneration policy |
| Resolution 7 | To approve the amendments to the Aberdeen Group plc Executive Long Term Incentive Plan |
| Resolution 8A | To re-elect Vivek Ahuja |
| Resolution 8B | To re-elect Jonathan Asquith |
| Resolution 8C | To re-elect Katie Bickerstaffe |
| Resolution 8D | To re-elect John Devine |
| Resolution 8E | To re-elect Hannah Grove |
| Resolution 8F | To re-elect Cathleen Raffaeli |
| Resolution 8G | To re-elect Jason Windsor |
| Resolution 9 | To elect Siobhan Boylan |
| Resolution 10 | To provide limited authority to make political donations and to incur political expenditure |
| Resolution 11 | To authorise the Directors to issue further shares |
| Resolution 12 | To disapply share pre-emption rights |
| Resolution 13 | To give authority for the Company to buy back shares up to 5% of its issued ordinary shares |
| Resolution 14 | To authorise the Directors to allot shares in relation to the issuance of Convertible Bonds |
| Resolution 15 | To disapply pre-emption rights in respect of allotments of equity securities in relation to the issuance of Convertible Bonds |
| Resolution 16 | To allow the Company to call general meetings on 14 clear days’ notice |
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.
Documents for inspection
Copies of these documents are available for inspection:
- the Directors’ service contracts or letters of appointment
- the Directors’ deeds of indemnity, entered into in connection with the indemnification of Directors’ provisions in the Company’s articles of association
- a copy of the Aberdeen Group plc Executive Long Term Incentive Plan 2024 rules, in the proposed amended form
You can see them during normal business hours from Monday to Friday (except public holidays) at 1 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2LL and at the offices of the Company’s solicitors, Slaughter and May, One Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8YY.
Copies of these documents will also be available for inspection at the place of the AGM and on this page for at least 15 minutes before and throughout the meeting.