20 Jul 2021 11:09
ABERDEEN JAPAN INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
LEI: 5493007LN4380BLNLM64
20 July 2021
Result of Annual General Meeting
The Board announces that at the Annual General Meeting held at 9.00 am today, Tuesday 20 July 2021, at Bow Bells House, 1 Bread Street, London, EC4M 9HH, the Ordinary Resolutions numbered 1 to 8 and the Special Resolutions numbered 9 to 12, as set out in the Notice of Meeting within the 2021 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 | 6,961,072 | 99.95 | 2,411 | 0.03 | 848 | 0.01 | 6,964,331 |
2 | To receive and adopt the Directors' Remuneration Report | 6,901,990 | 99.10 | 29,067 | 0.42 | 33,274 | 0.48 | 6,964,331 |
3 | To approve a final dividend of 9.0p | 6,937,377 | 99.61 | 26,696 | 0.38 | 259 | 0.00 | 6,964,332 |
4 | To re-elect Karen Brade | 6,955,062 | 99.87 | 8,707 | 0.13 | 562 | 0.01 | 6,964,331 |
5 | To re-elect Claire Boyle | 6,952,268 | 99.83 | 11,034 | 0.16 | 1,029 | 0.01 | 6,964,331 |
6. | To re-elect Sam Dean | 6,953,086 | 99.84 | 7,991 | 0.11 | 3,253 | 0.05 | 6,964,330 |
7 | To re-elect Sir David Warren | 6,951,235 | 99.81 | 10,272 | 0.15 | 2,824 | 0.04 | 6,964,331 |
8 | To re-appoint KPMG LLP as independent auditors | 6,944,717 | 99.72 | 5,213 | 0.08 | 14,401 | 0.21 | 6,964,331 |
9 | To authorise the Directors to allot shares | 6,953,946 | 99.85 | 848 | 0.01 | 9,538 | 0.14 | 6,964,332 |
10 | To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights | 6,950,778 | 99.81 | 7,308 | 0.11 | 6,245 | 0.09 | 6,964,331 |
11 | To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares | 6,955,040 | 99.87 | 4,852 | 0.07 | 4,439 | 0.06 | 6,964,331 |
12 | To approve an amendment to the Articles of Association | 6,914,800 | 99.29 | 8,738 | 0.13 | 40,793 | 0.59 | 6,964,331 |
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 2021, 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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