Result of AGM

RNS Number : 6363Y

Aberdeen Asian Smaller Co's Inv Tst

02 December 2014

 



2 December 2014

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

Result of Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting of the Company held today (2 December 2014), all resolutions in the Notice of Meeting were passed on a show of hands. 

In relation to Resolution 12 (authority to disapply pre-emption rights), 10.0 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital equates to 3,809,680 Ordinary shares as at today's date.

In relation to Resolution 13 (authority to purchase shares for cancellation or treasury), 14.99 per cent. of the Company's issued share capital equates to 5,710,711 Ordinary shares as at today's date.

The total number of proxy votes lodged was as follows:

Res. No.	Res. Name	No of Votes  For	% of Votes For	Number of Votes  Against	% of Votes Against	No. of Votes  Discret.	% of Votes Discret.	Number of Votes  Withheld	% Votes Withheld	Total Votes Cast (Including Withheld)	Total % of Issued capital voted (Including Withheld)
01	Report and Financial Statements	14,248,307	99.95	848	0.01%	6,000	0.04%	25,861	0.18%	14,281,016	37.49%
02	Remuneration Report	14,187,208	99.71	34,552	0.24%	6,360	0.04%	52,897	0.37%	14,281,017	37.49%
03	Remuneration Policy	14,175,106	99.66	41,729	0.29%	6,360	0.04%	57,820	0.40%	14,281,015	37.49%
04	Final Dividend	14,248,837	99.95	768	0.01%	6,360	0.04%	25,051	0.18%	14,281,016	37.49%
05	Special Dividend	14,244,888	99.95	331	0.00%	6,360	0.04%	29,437	0.21%	14,281,016	37.49%
06	N K Cayzer	13,283,769	93.17	966,999	6.78%	6,360	0.04%	23,888	0.17%	14,281,016	37.49%
07	M J Gilbert	13,286,876	93.31	946,496	6.65%	6,360	0.04%	41,284	0.29%	14,281,016	37.49%
08	H Fukuda	13,243,887	93.15	968,099	6.81%	6,360	0.04%	62,670	0.44%	14,281,016	37.49%
09	P Yea	14,204,933	99.75	29,460	0.21%	6,360	0.04%	40,263	0.28%	14,281,016	37.49%
10	Reappoint Auditor	14,188,822	99.71	34,950	0.25%	6,360	0.04%	50,884	0.36%	14,281,016	37.49%
11	Allot Shares	14,225,519	99.81	21,310	0.15%	6,360	0.04%	27,827	0.19%	14,281,016	37.49%
12	Pre-emption Rights	14,204,613	99.76	28,148	0.20%	6,360	0.04%	41,895	0.29%	14,281,016	37.49%
13	Purchase Shares	14,176,675	99.47	69,885	0.49%	6,360	0.04%	28,096	0.20%	14,281,016	37.49%
14	Short Notice General Meetings	13,930,308	97.67	326,079	2.29%	6,360	0.04%	18,269	0.13%	14,281,016	37.49%
15	Amend Articles	13,307,602	93.51	916,527	6.44%	6,360	0.04%	50,527	0.35%	14,281,016	37.49%

 

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.

For Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

Secretaries

2 December 2014

 

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