4 Feb 2022 12:51
ABERDEEN STANDARD EQUITY INCOME TRUST PLC
4 February 2022
Result of Annual General Meeting
At the Annual General Meeting of Aberdeen Standard Equity Income Trust plc (the "Company") held on Friday 4 February 2022, all the Resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting included within the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 30 September 2021, available on the Company's website www.aberdeenstandardequityincometrust.co.uk*, were duly passed on a show of hands.
The total number of proxy votes lodged was as follows:
For and Discretionary | Against | Votes | Total Votes | |||
Resolution | No. of | % of | No. of | % of | Withheld | (excluding Votes Withheld) |
Number | Votes | Votes Cast | Votes | Votes Cast | ||
1. Approve Directors' Report and Financial Statements | 6,749,625 | 99.56 | 29,955 | 0.44 | 73,841 | 6,779,580 |
2. Approve Directors' Remuneration Report | 6,566,040 | 97.75 | 151,322 | 2.25 | 136,059 | 6,717,362 |
3. Approve Dividend Policy | 6,746,477 | 99.57 | 29,045 | 0.43 | 77,899 | 6,775,522 |
4. Re-elect Ms C.M. Hitch | 6,723,746 | 99.49 | 34,394 | 0.51 | 95,281 | 6,758,140 |
5. Re-elect Ms S. Patel | 6,669,231 | 98.70 | 88,179 | 1.30 | 96,011 | 6,757,410 |
6. Re-elect Mr J. J. Tigue | 6,661,416 | 98.67 | 89,779 | 1.33 | 102,226 | 6,751,195 |
7. Re-elect Mr M.B.E White | 6,696,504 | 99.14 | 58,269 | 0.86 | 98,648 | 6,754,773 |
8. Re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor | 6,612,423 | 98.36 | 110,028 | 1.64 | 130,970 | 6,722,451 |
9. Remuneration of the Auditor | 6,708,224 | 99.26 | 49,966 | 0.74 | 93,182 | 6,758,190 |
10. Approve Company continuing as an Investment Trust Company | 6,765,435 | 99.47 | 36,095 | 0.53 | 51,891 | 6,801,530 |
11. Allotment of shares | 6,683,931 | 99.23 | 52,199 | 0.77 | 75,286 | 6,736,130 |
12. Disapply pre-emption rights | 6,545,235 | 97.99 | 134,366 | 2.01 | 125,834 | 6,679,601 |
13. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares | 6,655,720 | 98.78 | 82,210 | 1.22 | 73,486 | 6,737,930 |
14. Notice of General Meetings | 6,508,601 | 96.49 | 236,510 | 3.51 | 66,305 | 6,745,111 |
Copies of the resolutions passed under special business will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism*.
*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.
4 February 2022