13 Nov 2018 12:09
Genesis Emerging Markets Fund Limited (the 'Company')
Result of Annual General Meeting
Following the Annual General Meeting ('AGM') of the Company, which was held earlier today, the Board is pleased to announce that all ordinary and special resolutions set out in the Notice of the Meeting were duly passed.
Resolution 5 proposed the payment of a final dividend of 19.0 US cents per Participating Preference Share in respect of the financial year ended 30th June 2018. The dividend will be paid on 21st December 2018 to those shareholders on the register at close of business on 23rd November 2018. The XD date is 22nd November 2018.
While declared in US dollars, the dividend will be paid in sterling; a further announcement in respect of the sterling equivalent of the declared dividend rate will be made in due course.
Details of the number of proxy votes cast for, against and withheld on the resolutions will be published on the Company's website at www.genesisemf.com
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the special resolution passed at the AGM has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.
For the avoidance of doubt, it should be noted that the power to purchase shares in the market as proposed in Resolution 12 will last until the AGM in 2019.
For further information, please contact:
J.P. Morgan Administration Services (Guernsey) Limited
Company Secretary
01481 758 620
13th November 2018