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JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED
HENDERSON INTERNATIONAL INCOME TRUST PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 2138006N35XWGK2YUK38
12 December 2023
HENDERSON INTERNATIONAL INCOME TRUST PLC
Annual General Meeting of the Company
held on Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Henderson International Income Trust plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a show of hands. This included the following resolutions:
Ordinary resolutions:
- Resolution 11: to approve that the Company should continue as an investment trust for a further three-year period.
- Resolution 12: to approve the dividend policy of paying four quarterly interim dividends in each year.
- Resolution 13: to authorise the directors to allot ordinary shares up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital.
Special resolutions:
- Resolution 14: to authorise the directors to allot or to sell from treasury up to 10% of the issued ordinary share capital without first offering them to existing shareholders, in accordance with statutory pre-emption procedures.
- Resolution 15: to authorise the Company to make market purchases of the Company's ordinary shares.
- Resolution 16: to hold general meetings other than an annual general meeting on not less than 14 clear days' notice.
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the circular to shareholders dated 1 November 2023 which can be viewed on the Company's website at: www.hendersoninternationalincometrust.com
A copy of the above 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.
The proxy votes received in relation to each resolution were as follows:
Resolutions | Votes for (including at Chairman's discretion) | % | Votes against | % | Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld) | Votes withheld |
1 Annual report and audited financial statements | 60,176,288 | 99.94 | 35,850 | 0.06 | 60,212,138 | 548,155 |
2 Directors' remuneration report | 59,674,576 | 99.34 | 395,703 | 0.66 | 60,070,279 | 690,014 |
3 Directors' remuneration policy | 59,656,167 | 99.39 | 363,315 | 0.61 | 60,019,482 | 740,811 |
4 Appointment of Mai Fenton | 59,995,353 | 99.78 | 131,004 | 0.22 | 60,126,357 | 633,936 |
5 Re-appointment of Richard Hills | 59,854,601 | 99.75 | 147,143 | 0.25 | 60,001,744 | 639,274 |
6 Re-appointment of Aidan Lisser | 59,977,049 | 99.75 | 150,128 | 0.25 | 60,127,177 | 633,116 |
7 Re-appointment of Jo Parfrey | 59,977,688 | 99.75 | 149,489 | 0.25 | 60,127,177 | 633,116 |
8 Re-appointment of Lucy Walker | 59,974,767 | 99.75 | 152,153 | 0.25 | 60,126,920 | 633,373 |
9 Re-appointment of BDO LLP as statutory auditors | 60,014,302 | 99.75 | 149,382 | 0.25 | 60,163,684 | 596,609 |
10 Directors to determine the auditors' remuneration | 60,042,439 | 99.80 | 117,632 | 0.20 | 60,160,071 | 600,222 |
11 Continuation as an investment trust | 60,536,947 | 99.83 | 102,413 | 0.17 | 60,639,360 | 120,933 |
12 Approval of the dividend payment policy | 60,222,998 | 99.91 | 55,418 | 0.09 | 60,278,416 | 481,877 |
13 Authority to allot ordinary shares | 60,066,547 | 99.71 | 172,342 | 0.29 | 60,238,889 | 521,404 |
14 Authority to disapply pre-emption rights on allotment or sale of ordinary shares* | 59,813,064 | 99.35 | 392,008 | 0.65 | 60,205,072 | 555,221 |
15 Authority to make market purchases of ordinary shares* | 60,019,641 | 99.62 | 231,502 | 0.38 | 60,251,143 | 509,150 |
16 Authority to call a general meeting on 14 clear days' notice* | 59,765,722 | 99.28 | 432,158 | 0.72 | 60,197,880 | 562,413 |
* Special resolution.
The number of ordinary shares in issue and the number of voting rights in the Company at the date of this announcement is 195,978,716 (one vote for every ordinary share held).
A copy of the proxy results will shortly be available on the Company's website at:
www.hendersoninternationalincometrust.com
For further information please contact:
Ben Lofthouse
Fund Manager
Henderson International Income Trust plc
Telephone: 020 7818 5187
Dan Howe
Head of Investment Trusts
Janus Henderson Investors
Telephone: 020 7818 4458
Harriet Hall
Investment Trust PR Manager
Janus Henderson Investors
Telephone: 020 7818 2919