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22 July 2025
LEI number: 549300HV0VXCRONER808
The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc
(the "Company")
RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Board of The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc (ticker: EDIN), is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put forward at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today were passed.
The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting contained in the Company's Annual Financial Report for the year ended 31 March 2025. The votes received were as follows:
Resolution | For | % For | Against | % Against | Withheld* |
1. To receive and consider the Annual Financial Report for the year ended 31 March 2025 | 38,503,762 | 99.99% | 4,774 | 0.01% | 39,640 |
2. To approve the Remuneration Policy for the year ended 31 March 2025; | 38,167,672 | 99.41% | 225,381 | 0.59% | 155,123 |
3. To approve the Annual Statement and Report onRemuneration for the year ended 31 March 2025 | 38,189,345 | 99.54% | 176,595 | 0.46% | 182,236 |
4. To declare a final dividend on the ordinary shares | 38,511,387 | 99.99% | 4,126 | 0.01% | 32,663 |
5. To re-elect Steven Baldwin as a Director of the Company | 38,328,796 | 99.76% | 92,268 | 0.24% | 127,112 |
6. To re-elect Elisabeth Stheeman as a Director of the Company | 38,405,926 | 99.92% | 31,856 | 0.08% | 110,394 |
7. To re-elect Patrick Edwardson as a Director of the Company | 38,370,714 | 99.89% | 40,951 | 0.11% | 136,511 |
8. To re-elect Aidan Lisser as a Director of the Company
| 38,367,276 | 99.88% | 44,474 | 0.12% | 136,426 |
9. To re-elect Annabel Tagoe-Bannerman as a Director of the Company | 38,366,803 | 99.76% | 93,583 | 0.24% | 87,790 |
10. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company | 38,390,991 | 99.77% | 89,528 | 0.23% | 67,657 |
11. To authorise the Audit Committee to determine theremuneration of the auditors | 38,465,210 | 99.94% | 21,810 | 0.06% | 61,156 |
12.To approve and adopt the proposed investment objective and policy | 38,400,430 | 99.81% | 72,754 | 0.19% | 74,992 |
13. To authorise the Directors to allot shares up to 10% of the issued share capital. | 38,425,646 | 99.81% | 73,102 | 0.19% | 49,428 |
14. Special resolution. To approve disapplication of pre-emption rights, subject to passing resolution 13. | 38,328,200 | 99.61% | 149,905 | 0.39% | 70,071 |
15. Special resolution. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares. | 35,828,352 | 93.03% | 2,683,082 | 6.97% | 36,742 |
16. Special resolution. To authorise that the general meetings of the Company, other than Annual General Meetings, may be called on 14 clear days' notice. | 38,268,138 | 99.39% | 234,984 | 0.61% | 45,054 |
*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is therefore not counted towards the proportion of votes "For" or "Against" the resolution.
At the time of the above meeting, the Company's issued share capital consisted of 195,666,734 ordinary shares. The Company held 52,385,709 shares in treasury. Therefore, the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights was 143,281,025. Each ordinary share held entitles the holder to one vote and there are no restrictions on those voting rights.
In accordance with LR9.6.2R, copies of all the resolutions passed other than resolutions concerning ordinary business will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism website and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
Enquiries
NSM Funds (UK) Limited (Company Secretary)
020 3697 5770
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