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HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Shareholder Information (continued)
Annual General Meeting / Interim Management Statements / Actuaries / Enquiries
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The Board may (whether at the time of the giving of the authorisation or subsequently) make any such authorisation
subject to any limits or conditions it expressly imposes but such authorisation is otherwise given to the fullest extent
permitted. The Board may vary or terminate any such authorisation at any time.
A Director shall be under no duty to HSBC Holdings with respect to any information which he obtains or has
obtained otherwise than as a Director of HSBC Holdings and in respect of which he has a duty of confidentiality to
another person.
Annual General Meeting
The 2009 Annual General Meeting will be held at the Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, London EC2 on Friday
22 May 2009 at 11 am.
An informal meeting of shareholders will be held at Level 28, 1 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong on Tuesday,
19 May 2009 at 4.30 pm.
All resolutions considered at the 2008 Annual General Meeting were passed on a poll as follows:
Total votes
Resolution For1 Against Vote withheld2
1 To receive the Report and Accounts for 2007 ........................................... 4,378,043,313 10,278,857 2,300,035
2 To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report for 2007 ....................... 3,564,669,072 467,114,424 328,531,356
3 To re-elect the following as Directors:
(a) S A Catz ............................................................................................. 4,375,443,604 15,493,924 4,853,194
(b) V H C Cheng ..................................................................................... 4,374,705,038 16,651,751 4,560,793
(c) J D Coombe ....................................................................................... 4,349,432,760 41,839,567 4,614,758
(d) J L Durán ............................................................................................ 4,375,677,125 15,302,707 4,915,245
(e) D J Flint ............................................................................................. 4,374,609,502 16,771,975 4,536,647
(f) A A Flockhart .................................................................................... 4,373,920,231 17,415,825 4,580,796
(g) W K L Fung ....................................................................................... 4,259,101,744 76,102,878 60,005,424
(h) S T Gulliver ....................................................................................... 4,372,071,648 17,464,424 6,374,625
(i) J W J Hughes-Hallett ......................................................................... 4,372,359,698 18,870,339 4,659,213
(j) W S H Laidlaw .................................................................................. 4,375,327,024 15,801,272 4,735,846
(k) N R N Murthy .................................................................................... 4,375,645,536 15,587,234 4,671,202
(l) S W Newton ...................................................................................... 4,374,735,344 16,524,200 4,612,269
4 To reappoint the Auditor at remuneration to be determined by the
Group Audit Committee ........................................................................ 4,304,372,153 12,720,218 72,285,220
5 To authorise the Directors to allot shares .................................................. 4,356,107,796 29,620,845 4,880,817
6 To disapply pre-emption rights (Special Resolution) ................................ 4,332,361,701 47,782,336 10,450,441
7 To authorise the Company to purchase its own Ordinary Shares ............. 4,305,412,056 12,665,996 71,358,559
8 To alter the Articles of Association (Special Resolution) ......................... 4,327,487,122 53,604,562 9,091,619
9 To alter the Articles of Association with effect from 1 October 2008
(Special Resolution) .............................................................................. 4,360,324,406 21,054,665 8,805,451
10 To amend the rules of the HSBC Share Plan ............................................. 3,684,549,040 399,610,155 290,185,238
1 Includes discretionary votes.
2 A ‘Vote withheld’ is not a ‘vote’ in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes ‘For’ and ‘Against’ the resolution.
Interim Management Statements and Interim results
Interim Management Statements are expected to be issued on 11 May 2009 and 6 November 2009, respectively. The
interim results for the six months to 30 June 2009 are expected to be issued on 3 August 2009.
Actuaries
Actuaries preparing the latest valuations for the main retirement benefit schemes are:
HSBC Bank (UK) Pension Scheme: C G Singer, Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, of Watson Wyatt Limited;
HSBC Group Hong Kong Local Staff Retirement Benefit Scheme: Estella Chiu, Fellow of the Society of
Actuaries of the United States of America, of HSBC Insurance (Asia) Limited, a subsidiary of HSBC Holdings; and
HSBC North America (US) Retirement Income Plan: Jennifer Jakubowski, Fellow of the Society of Actuaries,
Enrolled Actuary and member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and Emily Carlson, Associate of the Society
of Actuaries.
Disclosures relating to the latest valuations are included in Note 8 on the Financial Statements.