28 Apr 2021 09:57
Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust PLC
Results of the Annual General Meeting held on 28 April 2021
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 213800J6D2TVHRGKBG24
At today's Annual General Meeting all resolutions were passed by shareholders.
The proxy votes received in respect of the Annual General Meeting are shown in the following table:
For (including discretionary) | Against | Withheld | |
1 Approve the annual report | 5,183,386 | 415 | 5,001 |
2 Approval of Directors' Remuneration Report | 4,907,198 | 215,236 | 66,367 |
3 Re-election of R Lister | 5,035,215 | 134,726 | 18,860 |
4 Re-election of D Fletcher | 5,050,079 | 126,175 | 12,547 |
5 Re-election of D Kershaw | 5,034,717 | 138,317 | 15,767 |
6 Re-election of B Rose | 4,986,920 | 182,756 | 19,125 |
7 Re-appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as auditors of the Company | 4,932,652 | 222,286 | 33,863 |
8 Authority for Directors to determine auditors' remuneration | 5,005,729 | 162,182 | 20,890 |
9 Section 551 allotment | 5,054,739 | 131,391 | 2,671 |
10 Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 5,071,987 | 96,255 | 20,559 |
11 Share buyback authority | 5,149,636 | 27,637 | 11,529 |
12 Approval and Adoption of new Articles of Association | 4,577,232 | 583,817 | 27,752 |
The total vote was 5.19 million shares including those withheld votes as identified above.
Resolutions 1 - 9 inclusive were ordinary resolutions and Resolutions 10 to 12 were special resolutions.
A copy of the above proxy results has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism *. The document is also available for download from the Company's website, www.aberdeensmallercompanies.co.uk
For Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income Trust PLC
Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, Secretary
28 April 2021
*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.