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AVI Japan Opportunity Trust PLC
Results of Annual General Meeting
LEI: 894500IJ5QQD7FPT3J73
2 May 2023
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, 2 May 2023 were duly passed. Voting on all resolutions was conducted by a show of hands.
The full text of the Resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 15 March 2023, 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 | 45,298,317 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 2 To approve a final ordinary dividend of 0.80p per Ordinary Share | 45,304,028 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
Resolution 3 To re-elect Mr Norman Crighton as a Director of the Company | 45,256,916 | 99.91% | 41,401 | 0.09% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 4 To re-elect Mr Yoshi Nishio as a Director of the Company | 45,196,297 | 99.77% | 102,020 | 0.23% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 5 To re-elect Ms Margaret Stephens as a Director of the Company | 45,296,485 | 99.99% | 1,832 | 0.01% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 6 To re-elect Ms Ekaterina Thomson as a Director of the Company | 45,296,485 | 99.99% | 1,832 | 0.01% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 7 To re-appoint BDO LLP as Auditor of the Company | 45,233,716 | 99.86% | 64,601 | 0.14% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 8 To authorise the Directors to determine the Auditor's remuneration | 45,296,548 | 99.99% | 1,769 | 0.01% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 9 To receive and approve the Directors' Remuneration Report | 45,178,017 | 99.73% | 122,511 | 0.27% | 0 | 3,500 |
Resolution 10 To authorise the Directors to allot securities up to an aggregate nominal amount of £280,723 | 45,272,071 | 99.94% | 26,246 | 0.06% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 11 To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to an aggregate nominal value of £140,361 | 45,151,954 | 99.68% | 146,363 | 0.32% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 12 To authorise the Directors to allot securities for cash and to disapply statutory pre-emption rights up to a further aggregate nominal value of £140,361 | 45,118,869 | 99.60% | 179,448 | 0.40% | 0 | 5,711 |
Resolution 13 To authorise the Directors to make market purchases of Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company up to an aggregate number of 21,040,219 shares | 45,304,028 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0 |
Resolution 14 To authorise the Company to hold general meetings on 14 clear days' notice | 45,235,411 | 99.86% | 64,117 | 0.14% | 0 | 4,500 |
Enquiries:
Joe BauernfreundAsset Value InvestorsInvestment Manager | 020 7659 4800 |
Nezia MorganLink Company Matters LimitedCompany Secretary | 0333 300 1950 |
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.