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JANUS HENDERSON FUND MANAGEMENT UK LIMITED
HENDERSON OPPORTUNITIES TRUST PLC
LEGAL ENTITY IDENTIFIER: 2138005D884NPGHFQS77
7 March 2024
HENDERSON OPPORTUNITIES TRUST PLC
Annual General Meeting held on Thursday 7 March 2024
Henderson Opportunities Trust plc announces that at the Annual General Meeting held earlier today all resolutions proposed were duly passed on a poll.
The poll results received in relation to each resolution were as follows:
Resolution | Votes for (including at Chairman's discretion) | % | Votes Against | % | Total Votes Cast (excluding votes withheld) | Total Votes Cast (excluding votes withheld) as a percentage of total voting rights | Votes Withheld | |
1 | Annual Report and audited financial statements | 1,814,246 | 99.73 | 4,901 | 0.27 | 1,819,147 | 23.03 | 1,612 |
2 | Approve a final dividend of 13.0p per share | 1,807,901 | 99.74 | 4,739 | 0.26 | 1,812,640 | 22.95 | 8,119 |
3 | Directors' Remuneration Report | 1,788,874 | 98.90 | 19,838 | 1.10 | 1,808,712 | 22.90 | 12,047 |
4 | To re-appoint Wendy Colquhoun as a Director | 1,721,647 | 95.05 | 89,749 | 4.95 | 1,811,396 | 22.93 | 9,363 |
5 | To re-appoint Davina Curling as a Director | 1,719,257 | 94.91 | 92,139 | 5.09 | 1,811,396 | 22.93 | 9,363 |
6 | To re-appoint Frances Daley as a Director | 1,722,417 | 95.09 | 88,979 | 4.91 | 1,811,396 | 22.93 | 9,363 |
7 | To re-appoint Harry Morgan as a Director | 1,726,147 | 95.29 | 85,249 | 4.71 | 1,811,396 | 22.93 | 9,363 |
8 | Re-appoint BDO LLP as statutory auditors | 1,804,562 | 99.67 | 6,057 | 0.33 | 1,810,619 | 22.92 | 10,140 |
9 | Authorise Directors to determine the remuneration of the statutory auditor | 1,800,323 | 99.52 | 8,723 | 0.48 | 1,809,046 | 22.90 | 11,713 |
10 | Increase the maximum aggregate annual remuneration payable to Directors to £165,000 per annum | 1,694,537 | 93.70 | 114,022 | 6.30 | 1,808,046 | 22.90 | 12,200 |
11 | Ordinary shares of 25 pence each to be sub-divided into five ordinary shares of 5 pence each | 1,730,178 | 95.19 | 87,346 | 4.81 | 1,817,524 | 23.01 | 3,235 |
12 | Authority to allot relevant securities | 1,726,618 | 95.11 | 88,787 | 4.89 | 1,815,405 | 22.98 | 5,354 |
13 | *Authority to disapply pre-emption rights | 1,710,886 | 94.63 | 96,993 | 5.37 | 1,807,879 | 22.89 | 12,880 |
14 | *Authority to repurchase ordinary shares | 1,803,803 | 99.21 | 14,340 | 0.79 | 1,818,143 | 23.02 | 2,616 |
15 | *14 days' notice for a General Meeting | 1,809,711 | 99.58 | 7,577 | 0.42 | 1,817,288 | 23.01 | 3,471 |
* Special resolution
The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting which is available on the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") website. A copy of the special business resolutions will be submitted to the NSM and will shortly be available for inspection on the NSM website at:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
The number of ordinary shares in issue at the date of this announcement is 8,000,858, of which 102,483 ordinary shares are held in treasury. As at the date of this announcement the Company's total voting rights therefore comprises 7,898,375 shares with one vote each.
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 7 March 2024 (7,898,375), being the time at which a shareholder had to be registered in the register of members in order to attend and vote at the AGM. A vote "withheld" is not a vote in law and has not been counted as a vote "for" or "against" a resolution.
The Company instructs J.P. Morgan Securities plc to act as its broker in respect of its market purchase transactions. The Company may utilise the authority to purchase shares by either a single purchase or a series of purchases when market conditions allow when they are trading at a discount to the underlying net asset value per share, with the aim of maximising the benefit to shareholders. This proposal does not indicate that the Company will purchase shares at any particular time or price, nor imply any opinion on the part of the Directors as to the market or other value of the Company's shares. This arrangement is in accordance with Chapter 12 of the Financial Conduct Authority's Listing Rules and the Company's general authority to repurchase shares.
A copy of the poll results will shortly be available on the Company's website at:
www.hendersonopportunitiestrust.com
For further information, please contact:
James Henderson Fund Manager Henderson Opportunities Trust plc Telephone: 020 7818 4370
| Laura Foll Fund Manager Henderson Opportunities Trust plc Telephone: 020 7818 6364
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Dan Howe Head of Investment Trusts Janus Henderson Investors Telephone: 020 7818 4458 | Harriet Hall PR Director, Investment Trusts Janus Henderson Investors Telephone: 020 7818 2919 |
Neither the contents of the Company's website nor the contents of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the Company's website (or any other website) is incorporated into, or forms part of, this announcement.