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AGM Information • Mar 23, 2021

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Standard Life Private Eqty Trst PLC

23 March 2021

STANDARD LIFE PRIVATE EQUITY TRUST PLC

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 2138004MK7VPTZ99EV13

23 March 2021

Result of Annual General Meeting

Standard Life Private Equity Trust plc (the "Company") hereby gives notification that, at the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the Company held earlier today, Tuesday 23 March 2021, all the Resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting included within the Annual Report and available on the Company's website, www.slpet.co.uk* were duly passed on a show of hands, exception Resolution 4.

Resolution 4 was withdrawn by the Chair and not put to a vote of shareholders at the AGM following Jonathon Bond's intimation that he intended to resign as a Director of the Company for personal reasons.  Following the withdrawal of the resolution, Mr Bond did not seek re-election to the Board and resigned with effect from the conclusion of the AGM on 23 March 2021. 

The Board wishes to thank Mr Bond for his considerable contribution to the Company and wishes him well in his future endeavours.

The total number of proxy votes lodged for the Annual General Meeting were as follows:

	For and Discretionary		Against		Votes	Total Votes
Resolution Number	No. of Votes	% of Votes Cast	No. of Votes	% of Votes Cast	Withheld	(excluding Votes Withheld)
1. Receive Report & Accounts	112,203,115	100.00	0	0.00	4,277	112,203,115
2. Approve Directors' Remuneration Report	112,075,859	99.91	103,240	0.09	28,292	112,179,099
3. Approve Company's Dividend Policy	112,198,787	100.00	0	0.00	8,605	112,198,787
4. Re-elect Mr Bond	Resolution Withdrawn
5. Re-elect Mr Devine	112,144,566	100.00	1,712	0.00	61,113	112,146,278
6. Re-elect Ms McComb	112,135,657	100.00	1,947	0.00	69,787	112,137,604
7. Re-elect Ms Seymour-Williams	112,144,500	100.00	1,778	0.00	61,113	112,146,278
8. Re-elect Mr Thomson	112,069,200	99.94	70,669	0.06	67,523	112,139,869
9. Re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor	112,158,026	99.97	29,327	0.03	20,038	112,187,353
10. Remuneration of the Auditor	112,164,087	99.99	7,258	0.01	36,047	112,171,345
11. Allotment of new equity	112,099,685	99.95	58,008	0.05	49,699	112,157,693
12. Disapply  pre-emption rights	112,070,816	99.91	97,790	0.09	38,786	112,168,606
13. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	109,657,928	97.74	2,540,679	2.26	8,784	112,198,607
14. Approve holding meetings on less than 14 days' notice	112,050,074	99.88	136,621	0.12	20,696	112,186,695
15. Approve new Articles of Association	112,062,129	99.92	87,346	0.08	33,917	112,149,475

A presentation from the Manager will shortly be available on the Company's website.

A copy of the AGM resolutions which require to be lodged with the UKLA have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism (NSM) and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism*

*Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

For Standard Life Private Equity Trust plc

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

Company Secretary

23 March 2021

Tel: 0131 372 2200

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