Bulletin from Investor AB’s Annual General Meeting 2024
The resolutions passed at Investor’s Annual General Meeting (the ”Meeting”) on May 7, 2024, included the following.
Approval of the income statement and the balance sheet
The Meeting approved the income statement and the balance sheet for the parent company, as well as of the consolidated income statement and the consolidated balance sheet for the fiscal year 2023.
Dividend
The Meeting resolved, in accordance with the proposal of the Board, on a dividend to the shareholders of SEK 4.80 per share to be paid in two installments. At the first installment SEK 3.60 per share is paid with the record date May 10, 2024. At the second installment SEK 1.20 per share is paid with the record date November 11, 2024. The dividend is expected to be paid on May 15, 2024, and on November 14, 2024.
Remuneration Report
The Meeting approved the Board’s Remuneration Report.
Board of Directors
The Meeting discharged the members of the Board and the President from liability for the fiscal year 2023.
The Meeting elected Board members in accordance with the Nomination Committee’s proposal. Gunnar Brock, Magdalena Gerger, Tom Johnstone, Isabelle Kocher, Sven Nyman, Grace Reksten Skaugen, Hans Stråberg, Jacob Wallenberg, Marcus Wallenberg and Sara Öhrvall were re-elected members of the Board. Johan Forssell had declined re-election. Katarina Berg, Christian Cederholm and Mats Rahmström were elected as new members of the Board. Jacob Wallenberg was re-elected as Chair of the Board.
Compensation to the Board of Directors
The Meeting resolved on compensation to the Board in accordance with the Nomination Committee’s proposal of in total SEK 16,045,000, which will be divided in cash and in synthetic shares, as follows: SEK 3,330,000 to the Chair, SEK 1,940,000 to the Vice Chair, SEK 895,000 to the other ten members of the Board not employed by the Company, and a total of SEK 1,825,000 in cash for work in the committees of the Board. The compensation for work in the committees of the Board is allocated in the sum of SEK 500,000 to the Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and SEK 275,000 to the three other members each, and SEK 240,000 to the Chair of the Remuneration Committee and SEK 130,000 to the two other members each.
Auditor
The Meeting re-elected Deloitte AB as Auditor of the Company for the period until the end of the Meeting 2025 in accordance with the Nomination Committee’s proposal.
Guidelines for remuneration
The Meeting approved the Board’s proposal regarding guidelines for remuneration for the President and other members of the Executive Leadership Team, (Remuneration Policy). The guidelines correspond in substance with the guidelines decided by the Meeting 2020.
Long-term variable remuneration programs
The Meeting approved, in accordance with the Board’s proposal, the scope and key principles of both the long-term variable remuneration program for employees within Investor, excluding Patricia Industries (consisting of a Stock Matching Plan and a Performance Plan), and the long-term variable remuneration program for employees within Patricia Industries (based on the same structure as the program for Investor, but related to the value growth of Patricia Industries instead of the Investor share). The programs are substantially the same as the programs decided by the Meeting 2023.
Purchase and transfer of own shares
The Meeting authorized the Board, for the time until the Meeting of 2025, to decide on the purchase and transfer of the Company’s own shares of class A and class B, in order to give the Board wider freedom of action in their work with the Company’s capital structure, to enable transfer of own shares under the long-term variable remuneration program for employees within Investor, and to secure the costs, including the social security payments, in connection with the said program and with the allocation of synthetic shares as part of the remuneration to the Board.
The Meeting further resolved that transfer of own shares of class B in the Company shall be possible to employees participating in the long-term variable remuneration program 2024. A maximum of 2,000,000 shares or the higher number that may follow from a recalculation because of a split, bonus issue or similar action may be transferred. Transfer of own shares to employees shall be possible during the period and at the prices which employees are entitled to purchase shares under the program. The Company currently holds 5,334,448 own class B shares.
The Board of Directors
Investor AB (publ)
The proposals regarding the abovementioned resolutions of the Meeting are available at www.investorab.com.
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Phone +46 725 60 21 57
jacob.lund@investorab.com
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Phone +46 73 524 2130
magnus.dalhammar@investorab.com
This information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out above, at 17:30 CET on May 7, 2024.
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Investor AB, founded by the Wallenberg family in 1916, creates value for people and society by building strong and sustainable companies. Through substantial ownership and board participation, we drive initiatives that we believe create value and support our companies to remain or become best-in-class. Our portfolio is organized in three business areas: Listed Companies, Patricia Industries and Investments in EQT.