Result of AGM

The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc

RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Board of The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc is pleased to announce that all the resolutions put forward at its Annual General Meeting held earlier today were passed on a show of hands. 

The text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting contained in the Company’s Annual Report for the year to 31 March 2020. The proxy votes lodged with the Registrar will shortly be available via the Company’s website at: ww.edinburghinvestmenttrust.com

The proxy votes received were as follows: -

Resolution	In favour/Discretion	Percentage In favour	Against	Percentage Against	Withheld
1	57,261,999	99.98	11,471	0.02	6,964
2	56,924,042	99.55	256,532	0.45	99,860
3	57,255,286	99.98	12,382	0.02	12,766
4	57,022,440	99.76	134,634	0.24	123,360
5	57,037,104	99.80	112,855	0.20	130,475
6	57,081,122	99.82	105,629	0.18	93,683
7	56,787,729	99.35	372,154	0.65	120,550
8	57,030,273	99.77	128,781	0.23	121,380
9	57,114,562	99.87	74,588	0.13	91,284
10	57,058,013	99.66	193,318	0.34	29,103
11	57,163,696	99.90	57,533	0.10	59,205
12	57,120,390	99.76	138,047	0.24	21,997
13	56,947,774	99.54	262,514	0.46	70,146
14	56,864,007	99.61	225,684	0.39	14,981
15	56,313,340	98.34	949,031	1.66	18,063
16	49,672,983	93.54	3,430,516	6.46	4,176,934

At the time of the above meeting, the Company’s issued share capital consisted of 195,666,734 Ordinary Shares. The Company held 21,498,805 shares in treasury.  Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights was 174,167,929. Each Ordinary Share held entitles the holder to one vote and there are no restrictions on those voting rights. A "Vote withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the % of shares voted "For" or "Against" a resolution.

In accordance with LR 9.6.2 and LR 9.6.3, copies of the resolutions passed as special business will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism website and will be available for inspection at the https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism shortly.

23 July 2020

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