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Smithson Investment Trust plc
Legal Entity Identified: 52990070BDK2OKX5TH79
Results of AGM - 28 April 2021
Smithson Investment Trust plc (the "Company") is pleased to announce that all of the resolutions put forward at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today were passed.
The text of all the resolutions is contained in the Notice of Annual General Meeting published on the Company's website (www.smithson.co.uk).
The proxy votes received were as follows:-
Resolution | In Favour / Discretionary Total votes Percentage | Against Total votes Percentage | Withheld
| ||
1. To receive and accept the Annual Report. | 44,738,354 | 99.98 | 8,211 | 0.02 | 19,171 |
2. To approve the Directors Remuneration Report included in the Annual Report. | 44,705,153 | 99.93 | 33,180 | 0.07 | 27,403 |
3. To re-elect Mark Pacitti as a Director of the Company. | 44,115,212 | 98.68 | 588,803 | 1.32 | 61,721 |
4. To re-elect Diana Dyer Bartlett as a Director of the Company. | 44,732,953 | 99.97 | 12,809 | 0.03 | 19,974 |
5. To re-elect Lord St John of Bletso as a Director of the Company. | 44,723,382 | 99.95 | 20,755 | 0.05 | 21,599 |
6. To re-appoint Deloitte LLP as auditor to the Company. | 44,716,378 | 99.93 | 29,153 | 0.07 | 20,205 |
7. To authorise the Directors to fix the remuneration of the auditor until the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company. | 44,736,192 | 99.97 | 11,370 | 0.03 | 18,174 |
8. To authorise the Directors to allot securities in the Company up to an amount representing 10% of the issued share capital. | 44,734,919 | 99.96 | 17,599 | 0.04 | 13,218 |
9. To authorise the Directors to allot securities in the Company up to an additional amount representing 10% of the issued share capital. | 44,730,386 | 99.95 | 20,681 | 0.05 | 14,669 |
10. To disapply the pre-emption rights in relation to the allotment of shares up to an amount representing 10% of the issued share capital. * | 44,706,800 | 99.90 | 43,267 | 0.10 | 15,669 |
11. To disapply the pre-emption rights in relation to the allotment of shares up to an additional amount representing 10% of the issued share capital. * | 41,340,145 | 92.38 | 3,409,922 | 7.62 | 15,669 |
12. To authorise the Company to make market purchases of ordinary shares in the Company. * | 44,720,351 | 99.93 | 30,973 | 0.07 | 14,412 |
13. That the Directors be authorised to call general meetings (other than annual general meetings) on not less than 14 clear days' notice. * | 44,471,885 | 99.38 | 278,005 | 0.62 | 15,846 |
14. That the amended articles of association giving authority to the Directors to convene a general meeting as a hybrid meeting be approved and adopted. * | 44,730,043 | 99.97 | 14,850 | 0.03 | 20,843 |
*Special resolution
On the record date for voting at the meeting, the Company's issued ordinary share capital comprised 155,817,958 ordinary shares and this was the total number of ordinary shares with voting rights in the Company.
Copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
28 April 2021
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