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11 May 2020 15:15
HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED
THE CITY OF LONDON INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800F3NOTF47H6AO55
11 May 2020
THE CITY OF LONDON INVESTMENT TRUST PLC
("the Company")
General Meeting held on Monday, 11 May 2020
The Company announces that at the General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll and the results are as follows:
Resolution | Description | Votes for (including discretionary) | % | Votes against | % | Total votes cast | Votes cast (excluding votes withheld) as a percentage of total voting rights | Votes withheld |
1 | Authority to allot ordinary shares | 5,854,924 | 99.53 | 27,496 | 0.47 | 5,882,420 | 21.20 | 8,815 |
2* | Authority to disapply pre-emption rights on allotment or sale of ordinary shares | 5,700,143 | 96.96 | 178,608 | 3.04 | 5,878,751 | 21.18 | 12,482 |
* Special resolution.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the circular to shareholders dated 17 April 2020 which can be viewed on the Company's website at: www.cityinvestmenttrust.com.
For the purposes of section 341 of the Companies Act 2006, the votes validly cast are expressed in the table above as a percentage of the Company's total voting rights as at the close of business on 6 May 2020 (27,751,673), being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in order to vote at the General Meeting. A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.
The number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 416,179,868. There are no shares held in treasury. As at the date of this announcement the number of voting rights in the Company is:
a) 27,745,324 in respect of the ordinary shares (one vote for every 15 shares held);
b) 30,198 in respect of the First Preference Stock (one vote for every £10 of stock held); and
c) 29,484 in respect of the Preferred Ordinary Stock (one vote for every £20 of stock held).
Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 27,805,006.
A copy of the poll results will be available on the Company's website at: www.cityinvestmenttrust.com
A copy of the resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM's website at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
For further information, please contact:
Job Curtis Fund Manager Henderson Opportunities Trust plc Telephone: 020 7818 4367
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James de Sausmarez Director and Head of Investment Trusts Janus Henderson Investors Telephone: 020 7818 3349
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Laura Thomas Investment Trust PR Manager Janus Henderson Investors Tel: 020 7818 2636 |