Company announcement
Business transacted at the annual general meeting
Today, March 24, 2022, SimCorp A/S held its annual general meeting, at which the following was adopted:
Financial year 2021 and 2022
- The company’s audited annual report 2021
- The amendment of the company’s remuneration policy, including the unchanged remuneration of the Board of Directors for 2022 from 2021 and renumeration of the Technology Committee for 2022 and until the next annual general meeting
- The remuneration report 2021
- Distribution of profit according to the adopted annual report 2021. The dividend will be DKK 7.50 per share of DKK 1 and the remainder is transferred to next year
Elections and Board related matters
- Re-election of Peter Schütze as Chairman and Morten Hübbe as Vice-chairman of the Board of Directors
- Re-election of Susan Standiford, Simon Jeffreys, Adam Warby and Joan A. Binstock as members of the Board of Directors
- Re-election of PricewaterhouseCoopers as the company’s auditor
Share capital
- Authorization to the Board of Directors, in the period until 31 December 2023, to purchase own shares of up to 10% of the share capital, inclusive of the company’s current holding of own shares.
Proposals
- Amendment of Article 7 of the company's Articles of Association removing the address for the company’s share registrar.
- Amendments of the company's Articles of Association to become gender neutral.
However, not enough capital was represented at the general meeting in order to pass the proposal to amend the Articles of Association, and the Board of Directors will therefore convene an extraordinary general meeting for the purpose of adopting the proposal to these at the extraordinary general meeting in accordance with Article 14 of the Articles of Association.
Composition of the Board of Directors and its committees
After the annual general meeting, the Board of Directors held a board meeting to appoint members of its committees.
The Board of Directors, including its committees, are now composed as follows:
- Peter Schütze (Chair of the Board and member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and the Technology Committee)
- Morten Hübbe (Vice-chair of the Board and Chair of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee)
- Simon Jeffreys (Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee)
- Adam Warby (member of the Audit and Risk Committee and Nomination and Remuneration Committee)
- Joan A. Binstock (member of the Audit and Risk Committee and the Technology Committee)
- Susan Standiford (Chair of the Technology Committee)
- Sven Rinke (employee-elected)
- Neil Cook (employee-elected)
- Charlotte Søndergaard Klausen (employee-elected)
Copenhagen, March 24, 2022
SimCorp A/S
On behalf of the board of directors
Enquiries regarding this announcement should be addressed to
Christian Kromann, Chief Executive Officer, SimCorp A/S (+45 2810 9090)
Michael Rosenvold, Chief Financial Officer, SimCorp A/S (+45 5235 0000)
Company announcement no. 11/2022