24 Jul 2020 10:26
ABERDEEN JAPAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
LEI: 5493007LN4380BLNLM64
24 July 2020
Result of Annual General Meeting
The Board announces that at the Annual General Meeting held at 10.00 am today, Friday 24 July 2020, at Bow Bells House, 1 Bread Street, London, EC4M 9HH, the Ordinary Resolutions numbered 1 to 10 and the Special Resolutions numbered 11 and 12, as set out in the Notice of Meeting within the 2020 Annual Report, were passed.
The total number of proxy votes cast in relation to each Resolution was as follows:
For(inc discretionary) | Against | Abstained | Total | |||||
Resolution | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
1 | To receive and adopt the Directors' Report and Financial Statements | 7,406,656 | 99.98 | 481 | 0.01 | 820 | 0.01 | 7,407,957 |
2 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy | 7,372,112 | 99.52 | 23,726 | 0.32 | 12,119 | 0.16 | 7,407,957 |
3 | To receive and adopt the Directors' Remuneration Report | 7,380,418 | 99.63 | 16,346 | 0.22 | 11,193 | 0.15 | 7,407,957 |
4 | To approve a final dividend of 9.0p | 7,376,137 | 99.57 | 4,498 | 0.06 | 27,322 | 0.37 | 7,407,957 |
5 | To re-elect Karen Brade | 7,390,198 | 99.76 | 14,166 | 0.19 | 3,593 | 0.05 | 7,407,957 |
6 | To re-elect Claire Boyle | 7,361,466 | 99.37 | 13,498 | 0.18 | 32,993 | 0.45 | 7,407,957 |
7 | This resolution was withdrawn due to the untimely death of Mr Pakenham. | |||||||
8 | To re-elect Sir David Warren | 7,392,434 | 99.79 | 12,137 | 0.16 | 3,386 | 0.05 | 7,407,957 |
9 | To re-appoint KPMG LLP as independent auditors | 7,382,994 | 99.66 | 12,772 | 0.17 | 12,191 | 0.16 | 7,407,957 |
10 | To authorise the Directors to allot shares | 7,392,680 | 99.79 | 10,846 | 0.15 | 4,431 | 0.06 | 7,407,957 |
11 | To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights | 7,358,757 | 99.34 | 17,677 | 0.24 | 31,523 | 0.43 | 7,407,957 |
12 | To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 7,368,600 | 99.47 | 6,404 | 0.09 | 32,953 | 0.44 | 7,407,957 |
Passing of Resolutions under Special Business
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of the Meeting set out in the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2020, copies of which are available on the Company's website, www.aberdeenjapan.co.uk*.
Copies of the special resolutions have been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism *
Enquiries:
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC
Secretary
Tel. 0131 372 2200
*Neither the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on that website (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.
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