Conduct of Polls

Total Polling

As a result of the 225 virtual AGMs held for listed entities, polling was high across all indices - 100% in the S&P/ASX100 & 200 and 97.66% in the S&P/ASX201+.

All Link Group clients in the S&P/ASX100 held a virtual meeting in 2020 and as a result of this, all resolutions were put to poll at each of these meetings.

2020

S&P/ASX 100

100.00%

S&P/ASX 200

100.00%

S&P/ASX 201+

97.66%

2019

S&P/ASX 100

100.00%

S&P/ASX 200

94.29%

S&P/ASX 201+

55.05%

2018

S&P/ASX 100

100.00%

S&P/ASX 200

82.35%

S&P/ASX 201+

39.76%

2017

S&P/ASX 100

94.29%

S&P/ASX 200

78.38%

S&P/ASX 201+

33.33%

2016

S&P/ASX 100

94.59%

S&P/ASX 200

77.78%

S&P/ASX 201+

31.72%

2015

S&P/ASX 100

96.67%

S&P/ASX 200

87.80%

S&P/ASX 201+

67.86%

Polling Trends in 2020

AGM Shareholder Attendance

Percentage of shareholders attending AGMs

Not surprisingly, with the pandemic and the large number of virtual AGMs, AGM attendance was only 0.08% of holders attending meetings across all indices and across both physical and virtual meetings. Down from 0.19% in 2019.

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Meeting Attendance

The pandemic impacted the ability to hold a physical AGM so the majority of AGMs in 2020 were held virtually. This impacted the number of holders in attendance.

Visitors outnumbered holders for a few reasons including employees logging into their company AGM. A number of holders also logged in to view the AGM but did not register for a voting card.

Meeting Duration

The majority of meetings lasted between 1/2 hour and 1 1/2 hours compared to 1 and 2 hours in 2019. Virtual meetings tend to take less time on average than a physical meeting which resulted lower duration times.

Months in which meetings and ballots were held

In addition to AGMs, Link Group facilitated scheme meetings, extraordinary meetings, ballots, creditor meetings and more. In 2020 we facilitated 771 of these additional meetings, up from 80 in 2019. This was partly due to several organisations approaching us to run a virtual meeting for them due to COVID-19 restrictions as well as new requirements for superannuation funds to run an annual meeting.

November continues to be the busiest month with the majority of AGMs held at this time in conjunction with other projects.

Month 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
January 11 10 17 1 10
February 15 26 18 11 13
March 16 13 15 16 12
April 24 12 22 24 23
May 63 84 76 71 48
June 45 29 16 27 17
July 45 17 19 16 16
August 34 33 15 20 19
September 42 28 40 21 20
October 126 112 108 109 99
November 289 297 331 298 292
December 61 30 30 18 30
Totals 711 691 707 632 599