25 Jan 2018 15:59
HENDERSON INVESTMENT FUNDS LIMITED
HENDERSON EUROPEAN FOCUS TRUST PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 213800GS89AL1DK3IN50
25 January 2018
HENDERSON EUROPEAN FOCUS TRUST PLC
Results of Annual General Meeting held on 25 January 2018
Henderson European Focus Trust plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting held on 25 January 2018, all resolutions were duly passed. The items of other business included:
Ordinary resolution approving:
- the amendments to the Company's Investment Objective and Policy (full wording of the revised Investment Objective and Policy can be found on the Company's website at www.hendersoneuropeanfocus.com);
Special resolutions authorising:
- the allotment, or issue from Treasury, of up to 10% of the share capital (being 2,163,899 shares at the date of this resolution) without first offering them to existing shareholders in accordance with statutory pre-emption procedures;
- the Company to make market purchases of its own ordinary shares up to a maximum of 14.99% (being 3,243,685 shares as at the date of this resolution) at the maximum price per share (exclusive of expenses) not exceeding the higher of:
i) 105% of the average middle market quotations for the five business days preceding the date of purchase; and
ii) the higher of the last independent bid and the highest current independent bid on the London Stock Exchange.
Shares repurchased will be either held in Treasury or cancelled;
- that a general meeting may be called on not fewer than 14 clear days' notice; and
- the adoption of new Articles of Association.
The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting, copies of which are available for viewing on the Company's website at www.hendersoneuropeanfocus.com
For further information please contact:
James de Sausmarez
Director and Head of Investment Trusts
Henderson Global Investors
Telephone: 020 7818 3349