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Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 5493002NMTB70RZBXO96
9 July 2020
Result of Annual General Meeting
The Board of Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC (the "Company") announces that, at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held on 9 July 2020, all of the following resolutions were passed by the requisite majority.
Resolutions 1 - 12 were passed on a poll. A breakdown of results is shown below.
Resolution | Votes for (including votes at the discretion of the Chairman)
| % | Votes Against | % | Total Votes Cast | % of Issued Share Capital Voted | Votes Withheld |
Ordinary Resolutions | |||||||
1. To receive and adopt the Directors' and Auditor's Reports and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2020. | 155,339,725 | 99.05% | 1,483,735 | 0.95% | 156,823,460 | 65.35 | 21,022 |
2. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy. | 156,547,651 | 99.88% | 192,243 | 0.12% | 156,739,894 | 65.31 | 104,588 |
3. To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the year ended 31 March 2020. | 156,571,074 | 99.89% | 180,134 | 0.11% | 156,751,208 | 65.32 | 93,274 |
4. To declare a final dividend of 14.00 pence per share for the year ended 31 March 2020. | 156,831,962 | 100.00% | 176 | 0.00% | 156,832,138 | 65.35 | 12,344 |
5.1 To re-elect Paul Manduca as a Director. | 142,915,293 | 92.96% | 10,821,822 | 7.04% | 153,737,115 | 64.06 | 3,107,367 |
5.2 To re-elect Beatrice Hollond as a Director. | 156,287,676 | 99.68% | 505,074 | 0.32% | 156,792,750 | 65.34 | 51,732 |
5.3 To re-elect Charlie Ricketts as a Director. | 156,222,918 | 99.64% | 566,123 | 0.36% | 156,789,041 | 65.33 | 55,441 |
5.4 To re-elect David Graham as a Director. | 156,287,987 | 99.68% | 504,560 | 0.32% | 156,792,547 | 65.34 | 51,935 |
5.5 To re-elect Simon Jeffreys as a Director. | 151,737,060 | 96.78% | 5,051,369 | 3.22% | 156,788,429 | 65.33 | 56,053 |
6. To re- appoint Ernst & Young LLP as auditor of the Company, to act until the conclusion of the next general meeting of the Company at which audited accounts are laid before the members. | 156,634,242 | 99.89% | 171,734 | 0.11% | 156,805,976 | 65.34 | 38,505 |
7. To authorise the Directors to determine the auditor's remuneration. | 156,734,031 | 99.96% | 61,464 | 0.04% | 156,795,495 | 65.34 | 48,987 |
Special Business - Ordinary Resolution | |||||||
8. To authorise the Directors to allot shares. | 153,916,672 | 98.15% | 2,896,184 | 1.85% | 156,812,856 | 65.34 | 31,626 |
Special Resolutions | |||||||
9. To disapply pre-emption rights in relation to the allotment of shares by the Directors. | 143,408,560 | 91.88% | 12,667,544 | 8.12% | 156,076,104 | 65.04 | 768,378 |
10. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares. | 155,962,175 | 99.45% | 859,853 | 0.55% | 156,822,028 | 65.35 | 22,454 |
11. That the Articles of Association produced to the Meeting and initialled by the Chairman of the Meeting for the purpose of identification be adopted as the new Articles of Association of the Company in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, the existing Articles of Association. | 156,641,550 | 99.90% | 152,548 | 0.10% | 156,794,098 | 65.34 | 50,384 |
12. That a general meeting, other than an annual general meeting, may be called on not less than 14 clear days' notice. | 155,380,261 | 99.08% | 1,441,162 | 0.92% | 156,821,423 | 65.35 | 23,059 |
The total number of voting rights at the proxy deadline was 239,981,107.
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, the full text of all resolutions passed as special business have been submitted to the Financial Conduct Authority for publication through the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
For further information please e-mail CompanySecretarialEdinburgh@franklintempleton.com or contact Client Dealer Services at Franklin Templeton on free phone 0800 305 306, +44 (0) 20 7073 8690 for overseas investors, or e-mail enquiries@franklintempleton.co.uk.
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