Result of AGM

RNS Number : 5958U

Aberdeen Asian Smaller Co's Inv Tst

03 December 2013

 



3 December 2013

ABERDEEN ASIAN SMALLER COMPANIES INVESTMENT TRUST PLC (the "Company")

Result of Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held today (3 December 2013), all resolutions in the Notice of Meeting were passed on a show of hands. 

In relation to Resolution 13 (authority to disapply pre-emption rights), 10.0 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital equates to 3,807,137 Ordinary shares as at today's date.

In relation to Resolution 14 (authority to purchase shares for cancellation or treasury), 14.99 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital equates to 5,706,898Ordinary shares as at today's date.

The total number of proxy votes lodged was as follows:

Resolution Number	Number of Votes For	Number of Votes  Against	Number of Votes Discretionary	Total Votes Cast (Excluding Withheld)	Number of Votes Withheld	Total Votes Cast (Including Withheld)
01	11,960,556	5,374	1,227	11,967,157	925,677	12,892,834
02	11,860,078	55,727	1,227	11,917,032	975,802	12,892,834
03	12,868,206	3,525	1,227	12,872,958	19,876	12,892,834
04	12,867,107	3,445	1,227	12,871,779	21,055	12,892,834
05	11,610,780	1,226,052	1,227	12,838,059	54,775	12,892,834
06	11,609,962	1,229,765	1,727	12,841,454	51,380	12,892,834
07	11,874,416	949,450	1,727	12,825,593	67,241	12,892,834
08	11,913,609	20,454	1,227	11,935,290	957,544	12,892,834
09	12,770,986	52,858	1,727	12,825,571	67,263	12,892,834
10	11,878,847	39,900	1,727	11,920,474	972,360	12,892,834
11	12,786,879	60,635	1,227	12,848,741	44,093	12,892,834
12	12,802,634	36,793	1,227	12,840,654	52,180	12,892,834
13	12,760,469	72,351	1,227	12,834,047	58,787	12,892,834
14	12,730,785	125,369	1,227	12,857,381	35,453	12,892,834
15	12,527,078	317,840	1,227	12,846,145	46,689	12,892,834
16	12,664,405	147,907	1,227	12,813,539	79,295	12,892,834

Directorate

As indicated in the Annual Report for the year ended 31 July 2013, following the conclusion of the AGM, Mr Alan Kemp has now retired from as a non executive Director of the Company and as Chairman of the Audit Committee and Mr Chris Maude has assumed the Chairmanship of the Audit Committee.

PASSING OF RESOLUTIONS UNDER SPECIAL BUSINESS

A copy of the resolutions passed under special business will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism ("NSM") and will shortly be available for inspection at: www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM*.

*Neither the NSM website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on the NSM website (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

 

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