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AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC
Results of Annual General Meeting
LEI: 894500IJ5QQD7FPT3J73
3 May 2022
The Board of AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC (the "Company") is pleased to announce that all Resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held at 11.30am on Tuesday, 3 May 2022 were duly passed. Voting on all resolutions was conducted by poll.
The full text of the Resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 16 March 2022, which has previously been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and is available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism. The document is also available for download from the Company's website, www.ajot.co.uk.
For completeness, proxy votes received in respect of the Resolutions were as follows:
Resolutions | Votes For | Votes Against | Votes at Chairman's Discretion | Votes Withheld | ||
Resolution 1 To receive the directors' report and audited accounts of the Company | 42,354,037 | 99.92% | 35,816 | 0.08% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 2 To approve a final ordinary dividend of 0.70p per Ordinary Share | 42,359,748 | 99.92% | 35,816 | 0.08% | 0 | 0 |
Resolution 3 To re-elect Norman Crighton as a Director of the Company | 42,314,205 | 99.82% | 75,648 | 0.18% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 4 To re-elect Mr Yoshi Nishio as a Director of the Company | 42,298,205 | 99.82% | 75,648 | 0.18% | 0 | 21,711 |
Resolution 5 To re-elect Ms Margaret Stephens as a Director of the Company | 42,352,205 | 99.91% | 37,648 | 0.09% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 6 To re-elect Ms Ekaterina Thomson as a Director of the Company | 42,352,205 | 99.91% | 37,648 | 0.09% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 7 To re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor of the Company | 42,298,205 | 99.78% | 91,648 | 0.22% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 8 To authorise the Directors to determine the Auditor's remuneration | 42,352,105 | 99.91% | 37,748 | 0.09% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 9 To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | 42,261,853 | 99.7% | 129,211 | 0.30% | 0 | 4,500 |
Resolution 10 To receive and adopt the amended Directors' Remuneration Policy | 42,292,385 | 99.77% | 98,679 | 0.23% | 0 | 4,500 |
Resolution 11 To authorise the Directors to allot securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of £274,423 | 42,345,105 | 99.91% | 37,748 | 0.09% | 0 | 12,711 |
Resolution 12 To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to an aggregate nominal value of £137,211 | 42,321,072 | 99.85% | 61,581 | 0.15% | 0 | 12,911 |
Resolution 13 To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to a further aggregate nominal value of £137,211 | 41,878,977 | 98.81% | 503,876 | 1.19% | 0 | 12,711 |
Resolution 14 To authorise the Directors to make market purchases of Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company up to an aggregate number of 20,568,034 shares | 42,359,748 | 99.92% | 35,816 | 0.08% | 0 | 0 |
Resolution 15 To authorise the Company to hold general meetings on 14 clear days' notice | 42,141,495 | 99.4% | 254,069 | 0.60% | 0 | 0 |
Resolution 16 To adopt the new articles of association | 42,328,284 | 99.85% | 61,569 | 0.15% | 0 | 5,711 |
Enquiries:
Joe BauernfreundAsset Value InvestorsInvestment Manager | 020 7659 4800 |
Nezia MorganLink Company Matters LimitedCompany Secretary | 01392 477 500 |
Notes:
A copy of this announcement will be available on the Company's website and, in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, copies of resolutions 10 to 16 have been submitted to and will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
Terms used and not defined in this announcement bear the meaning given to them in the Notice of Meeting.
Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.