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24 April 2024
Annual General Meeting
Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Company plc (the "Company") announces that at the Annual General Meeting held today, all 12 resolutions were passed on a poll.
The full text of the resolutions is contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2023 available on the Company's webpages at Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Company - ATR.
As set out in the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2023, Ms Hitch retired from the Board immediately following the Annual General Meeting, also relinquishing her role as Senior Independent Director. The Board expects to nominate a replacement Senior Independent Director in due course.
The proxy votes received in respect of the resolutions are set out below:
Resolution | For | % | Against | % | Withheld |
% of issued share capital | |
Ordinary business | |||||||
1 | To receive the Annual Report & Accounts | 43,838,269 | 100.00 | 2,163 | 0.00 | 7,769 | 45.69 |
2 | To approve the final dividend | 43,840,035 | 100.00 | 2,163 | 0.00 | 6,003 | 45.69 |
3 | To approve the Remuneration Report | 43,783,146 | 99.89 | 46,832 | 0.11 | 18,223 | 45.67 |
4 | To re-elect Mrs Sarah MacAulay | 43,129,531 | 98.39 | 707,715 | 1.61 | 10,955 | 45.68 |
5 | To re-elect Mr Andrew Cainey | 43,195,752 | 98.57 | 625,964 | 1.43 | 26,485 | 45.67 |
6 | To re-elect Mr Jasper Judd | 43,277,480 | 98.76 | 544,236 | 1.24 | 26,485 | 45.67 |
7 | To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor | 43,809,445 | 99.97 | 11,935 | 0.03 | 26,821 | 45.67 |
8 | To approve the auditor's remuneration | 43,820,558 | 99.99 | 3,958 | 0.01 | 23,685 | 45.67 |
Special business | |||||||
9 | To renew the authority to allot shares | 43,827,424 | 99.97 | 14,774 | 0.03 | 6,003 | 45.69 |
10* | To approve the disapplication of pre-emption rights | 43,784,698 | 99.88 | 50,890 | 0.12 | 12,613 | 45.68 |
11* | To renew the authority to purchase own shares | 42,239,895 | 96.35 | 1,602,303 | 3.65 | 6,003 | 45.69 |
12* | To allow the Company to hold general meetings on a minimum notice period of 14 clear days | 43,713,316 | 99.72 | 123,105 | 0.28 | 11,780 | 45.68 |
*Resolutions 10, 11 and 12 were passed as special resolutions.
A copy of the resolutions passed as special business will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism, and available for inspection at National Storage Mechanism | FCA.
The proxy votes lodged with the Registrar will shortly be available via the Company's webpages at Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Company - ATR.
The total number of ordinary shares of 5p each in issue, at the time of the meeting was 109,114,651 of which 13,152,568 were held in treasury. Therefore, the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights was 95,962,083. Shareholders are entitled to one vote per share. Votes withheld are not a vote in law and are therefore not counted in the calculation of the percentages of the votes cast for and against a resolution. Where shareholders appointed the Chairman as their proxy with discretion as to voting, their votes were cast in favour of the resolutions and their shares have been included in the "votes for" column.
Enquiries:
Kerry Higgins
Schroder Investment Management Limited
0207 6586189