10 Sep 2020 12:00
Invesco Income Growth Trust Plc - Result of AGMInvesco Income Growth Trust Plc - Result of AGM
PR Newswire
London, September 10
Invesco Income Growth Trust plc
LEI: 549300DI4285Q8ZFO135
Result of AGM
Result of the Annual General Meeting of Invesco Income Growth Trust plc held on 10 September 2020:
All of the Annual General Meeting resolutions were decided by poll and were passed.
The Board is delighted by the shareholder support for the continuation of the Company while acknowledging the proportion of the vote against resolution 12. The Board will, as set out in the recent Chairman’s Statement, assess with its advisors the votes cast and engage with shareholders as appropriate, to determine what, if any, action to take.
Details of the votes cast and the resolutions are shown below.
10 September 2020
Enquiries:
Invesco Asset Management Limited+44 (0)20 3753 1000Angus Pottinger
The results of the poll were as follows:
| Resolution | Votes For | % | Votes Against | % | Votes Withheld |
| (including votes at the discretion of the Chairman) |
Ordinary resolutions:
| 1. | 19,088,417 | 99.2 | 163,183 | 0.8 | 355,862 |
| 2. | 18,795,368 | 98.0 | 380,392 | 2.0 | 440,063 |
| 3. | 18,907,258 | 98.7 | 241,138 | 1.3 | 459,066 |
| 4. | 19,044,795 | 99.0 | 183,183 | 1.0 | 375,663 |
| 5. | 17,958,242 | 93.6 | 1,232,123 | 6.4 | 417,096 |
| 6. | 18,236,383 | 95.2 | 925,537 | 4.8 | 441,720 |
| 7. | 17,050,057 | 88.9 | 2,128,660 | 11.1 | 428,745 |
| 8. | 18,714,131 | 97.5 | 471,915 | 2.5 | 421,415 |
| 9. | 18,651,422 | 97.4 | 489,470 | 2.6 | 462,749 |
| 10. | 18,915,009 | 98.6 | 269,021 | 1.4 | 423,432 |
| 11. | 18,973,683 | 98.7 | 249,981 | 1.3 | 379,977 |
| 12. | 15,595,801 | 79.4 | 4,048,685 | 20.6 | 74,591 |
| 13. | 18,700,917 | 97.3 | 509,945 | 2.7 | 396,600 |
Special resolutions:
| 14. | 17,771,201 | 92.7 | 1,409,733 | 7.3 | 422,707 |
| 15. | 18,967,810 | 98.7 | 249,188 | 1.3 | 386,642 |
| 16. | 18,712,279 | 97.3 | 516,893 | 2.7 | 386,651 |
Total Voting Rights were 58,551,530.
Resolutions:
The following Ordinary Resolutions were passed at the Annual General Meeting held on 10 September 2020:
1. To receive the Annual Financial Report for the year ended 31 March 2020.
2. To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Policy.
3. To approve the Annual Statement and Report on Remuneration.
4. To approve the Company’s Dividend Payment Policy to declare four dividends in respect of each accounting year, with one payment in respect of each calendar quarter.
5. To re-elect Hugh Twiss a Director of the Company.
6. To re-elect a Jonathan Silver Director of the Company.
7. To re-elect Roger Walsom a Director of the Company.
8. To re-elect Davina Curling a Director of the Company.
9. To re-elect Mark Dampier a Director of the Company.
10. To re-elect Tim Woodhead a Director of the Company.
11. To appoint Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s auditor and to authorise the Audit Committee to determine the Auditor’s remuneration.
12. THAT the Company continue as a closed-ended investment company.
13. To renew the Directors’ authority to allot new ordinary shares up to an aggregate nominal value of £4,879,294 (one third of the Company’s issued share capital at 1 July 2020). This authority will expire at the AGM in 2021.
The following Special Resolutions were passed at the Annual General Meeting held on 10 September 2020:
14. To renew the authority to disapply pre-emption rights to allow the issue of new ordinary shares pursuant to a rights issue, or for cash up to aggregate nominal value of £1,463,788 (10% of the Company’s issued share capital at 1 July 2020), to new shareholders without them first having to be offered to existing shareholders. This authority will expire at the AGM in 2021.
15. To renew the authority for the Company to purchase its own shares of up to 8,776,874 shares (14.99% of the Company’s issued share capital at 1 July 2020), subject to the restrictions referred to in the notice of the AGM. This authority will expire at the AGM in 2021.
16. THAT the period of notice required for general meetings of the Company (other than Annual General Meetings) shall be not less than 14 clear days.